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If Steve Jobs isn't a role model, then who is? The writer of this piece, Gary Stix, seems to assume that in order for one to be a role model they must be perfe
by AJ007 15y ago
If Steve Jobs isn't a role model, then who is?
The writer of this piece, Gary Stix, seems to assume that in order for one to be a role model they must be perfect.
Using this logic the very notion of a role model is foolish.
- definitions 15y agoI'd define a role model as someone who helps the world in a repeatable way, i.e. if a lot of people were like the person, the world would be significantly improved. I think the article, whether successfully or not, tries to show a definition more like that, no "perfection" involved.
- gujk 15y agoA role model is someone who is a model for a role the follower wants to fill. The world doesn't really enter into it, unless the follower is looking to make the world better, as opposed to looking to become fabulously wealthy or inwardly peaceful or remembered for generations or experienced in everything or privy to a secret no one else would know or one of many other possible life goals.