Screw Your Hero's

You basically know who is basically perfect human in your eyes and so that you tried to replicate them. So much so that you try to bring what you learn from them into your behavior.

Stop seeing people as good or bad start seeing them as People.

One's you start seeing them as person then you won't get shocked if they do something bad to you as they are human.

Lastly, when you see people as people, you   rely on data to find out who they are. You don’t care about the impressions they create or how people behave around them. For example, if you find out something you don’t like, it is based on real data about that person—they have exhibited behavior you don’t want to associate yourself with. The problem with flatly labelling them as ‘good’ is that you close all the possibilities of them having any ulterior motives for which they might be helping you. When you see them as a person, you recognize you don’t fully know them. Therefore, you don’t form any opinions until real data on them is gained. To quote Mike Tyson again: Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend.

We should admire heroic actions, encourage them and celebrate them; we should aspire towards incorporating them into our lives. But we should leave those people to be people, and to act like people—that’s a great thing they are doing, I really admire it—and spare the person from your dumb expectations and assumptions regarding things you have no data about.

  

Hopefully, you will no longer hand over your authority to people because they have the capacity to impress you with power and knowledge. Keep your authority to your own nation.