Learning from The Teacher's Mistakes

[Tim R]

I just had an insight. We tend to glorify the teachers we follow and love and we want to hear everything they have to say and teach, what we ought to do in order to find happiness.

But what we oftentimes don't do, is looking at the teacher's mistakes and learning from that. Despite all the teacher's wisdom, he fell into a certain trap. There's so much wisdom you can derive from that... What a trap it must've been, that even the teacher didn't make it. 

We forget that they are humans just like us who listen to them. Nobody's perfect.

I particularly had to think of Alan Watts' drinking issue. 

 

[mandyjw]

Brilliance often comes with some major blind spots. It would be a shame to dismiss the brilliance because of the blind spots or to credit the brilliance with a source separate from yourself. 

[seeking_brilliance]

@Tim R @mandyjw ??

Never meet your heroes, unless you are willing to learn from their shortcomings