People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
Nassim Nicholas TalebMuscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb