Can you afford to be someone else?
I'm not a fan of the following suggestion:
If you want success, however that is defined for you, then you should take a role model that exhibits the type of success you want, and then you should imitate him or her as closely as possible.
If two people are exactly the same, one of them is obsolete. I don't think anyone can afford to be anyone but themselves. You cannot play the game of life constantly thinking: "what would my role model do next?" Your role model is not thinking about it.
Once you are in the game, you can't afford to stop and think - you have to be in flow. I highly doubt top athletes, great public speakers, or experts in any field are thinking when they are performing their master art. They are using a voice from within - their intuition.
Instead of focusing on what is wrong with you and what is amazing about someone else, you can be far more effective if you simply learn to foster your inner voice. Rather than crowding out your instincts with thoughts of what you "should" be doing, have faith in your own ability to build the skills that you want within your own internal circuits.
It's far more effective than having two impaired circuits.
