The best thing you can hope to learn from someone you view as having made no mistakes is that they've made just as many if not more than others. Also because s

The best thing you can hope to learn from someone you view as having made no mistakes is that they've made just as many if not more than others. Also because survivorship bias: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias EDIT: Linked to Wikipedia