Always investigate up the chain of admiration.
One of THE BEST QUESTIONS you can ask somebody that you deeply admire and respect the most, is who THEY deeply admire and respect the most.
For example >>>
If you were to ask me this, one of the names (among several) that I would tell you, is Robert Anton Wilson.
Ok. And if you were to investigate up the chain, and ask Robert Anton Wilson this question, he would tell you:
- James Joyce
- Orson Welles
- Buckminster Fuller
- Alfred Korcyzbski
- Ezra Pound
- Timothy Leary, etc.
By doing this, you are peeling back the layers and are granted access to something very special.
You see, we are all far more prone to “monkey see, monkey do” than we’d like to reasonably admit.
The more time we spend with a person (even just reading their words, counts) the more we begin to automatically and unconsciously to copy them.
And on another level deeper… we end up copying the people they copied.
Because by doing so, we also inherit entire genealogies of perception, taste, ambition, humour, language, moral instinct, aesthetic judgement, and metaphysical posture.
So when you investigate up the chain of admiration, you are not just finding out who just “influenced” someone. But rather, are looking at something more akin to the hidden architecture of their mind.
You are finding the source-code behind the source-code. And this is where the game gets very interesting.
Because once you find out who your heroes revered, you can bypass the diluted surface-level imitation and go straight to the fountainhead.
You stop merely studying the man.
And you begin studying the forces that shaped and moulded them into what they are.
That, is where the gold is.
Do you understand?
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Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.