Another reason we create Important and Famous lists: What can we do?
What are we capable of? What is our potential? We have in our hearts a desire, a drive to be more . Therefore,
our attention goes to those who achieve more , who embody more. Their examples energize us (or maybe discourage us). We admire them (or maybe resent them). (Or maybe both.) We want to be more , both individually and together in our communities. We notice and study and perhaps motivate ourselves by those we see achieving and being more . A potential downside to this (inevitable) practice: - admiring the wrong achievements in others; - fostering a climate where people (perhaps we ourselves) aim to be noticed, to be thought of as Important ; - allowing our admiration for others to stand in for our own lives of doing and developing; - becoming discouraged by and maybe even resentful of what others have achieved (or what we think they have achieved) and devaluing our own lives of growth and development. Or even losing our motivation to continue growing and developing, thinking, “What’s the use? I will never be as (fill in the blank) as the Important people.”
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