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The People Who Have Shaped Me

Dear Reader,

I wanted to share with you this thoughtfully curated list of influential figures from around the world, spanning every field, subject, and topic that has profoundly shaped my personality and worldview. Some names may seem immediately familiar and expected, while others might surprise you with their unexpected impact. Please note that this collection is a living reflection of my evolving values—I'll periodically update, edit, add, or remove entries to better align with what resonates as authentic and meaningful to me.

Here it is:

Astronomy

  • Nicolaus Copernicus,

  • Johannes Kepler,

  • Edwin Hubble,

  • Carl Sagan

Art

  • Leonardo Da Vinci,

  • Stan Lee

  • Walt Disney

  • Hayao Miyazaki

  • Akira Toriyama

Biology

  • Charles Darwin

  • Richard Dawkins

Chemistry

  • Dmitri Mendeleev

  • Marie Curie

Cinema

  • Steven Spielberg

  • Quentin Tarantino

  • Christopher Nolan

Engineering

  • Nikola Tesla

  • Henry Ford

  • Elon Musk

  • Leonardo da Vinci

Entrepreneurship

  • Elon Musk

  • Jack Ma

  • Jeff Bezos

  • Thomas Edison

  • Mark Zuckerber

Finance

  • Milton Freidman

  • Thomas Sowell

  • Warren Buffet

  • Charlie Munger

  • Peter Lynch

  • Cathie Wood

  • Hasolidit

  • MrMoneyMustache

Health and Fitness

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • Andrew Huberman

  • Jeff Cavaliere

  • David Goggins

History

  • Alexander the Great

  • Abraham Lincoln

  • Napoleon Bonaparte

  • Julius Caesar

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Nelson Mandela

  • Mahatma Gandhi

Jewdaism

  • Manis Friedman

  • Zamir Cohen

  • Igal Cohen

  • Aharon Levi

  • Menachem Mendel Schneerson - The Rebbe

  • Moses Ben-Maimon (RAMBAM)

Music

  • Hans Zimmer

Literature

  • Aldous Huxley

  • Albert Camus

  • Ayn Rand

  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • George Orwell

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • Walter Isaacson

  • Jules Verne

  • Isaac Asimov

  • J.R.R. Tolkien

  • Yuval Noah Harari

Technology

  • Naval Ravikant

  • Elon Musk

  • Steve Jobs

  • Alex Karp

  • Jeff Bazos

  • Sundar Pichai

  • Jensen Huang

  • Lisa Su

Physics

  • Isaac Newton

  • Galileo Galilei

  • Stephen Hawking

  • Albert Einstein

Psychology

  • Sigmund Freud

  • Carl Jung

  • Jordan Peterson

  • Viktor Frankl

Philosophy

  • Aristotle

  • Socrates

  • Confucius

  • Plato

  • Marcus Aurelius (Stoics)

  • Baruch Spinoza

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Alan Watts

  • Epicurus

Visionary

  • Ray Kurzweil

  • Tom Lee

  • Peter Thiel

  • Yuval Noah Harari

Space Exploration

  • Carl Sagan

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • Buzz Aldrin

  • Yuri Gagarin

  • Johannes Kepler

  • Edwin Hubble

Spirituality

  • Osho

  • Sadghuru

  • Lao Tsu

Thank you for reading, and I hope you have managed to find some Mentors that you could relate to.
Michael.

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