You Only Get One Choice On This, Just One Please!

The question was asked first on LinkedIn where other answers can be found. My answer was:

“Dear Scott,

If I must pick ONE celebrity to model myself after, who it it would be and why, I would say the late Pope John Paul II.

He is clearly more than a celebrity, but he was a celebrity as well. The quality in him that attracts me is his courage. I wear a wrist ban that tells his most important advice: "Be not afraid! " Those were his first words to the world when he was elected pope. They've stayed with me ever since and helped me get through many a fearsome time.

The part of that found in my own demeanor is my fearlessness. It is in part a physical resemblance, the way I interact with powerful people. It allows me to give them my independent advice with a measure of confidence that does not come from me alone.

In the book Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order" by Malachi Martin, I learned more about what attracted me to this extraordinary man.

This link goes to Amazon's listing of books by him and about him.

Thanks for the question."

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Thanks.

John Darrouzet