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I never understood the desire to idolize famous people. Almost always the achievement was done by a group where the famous person took the credit and marginalized the other contributors. We teach our kids that somehow a single person did these amazing things when in truth they were the lead or figurehead of a larger movement organization or group.

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It's not that I idolize a particular person. It's more that I use them as a vehicle to tell a story, build curiosity, and teach about various things. For example, the story of Paganini and how he had a strange/rare disease that made his fingers extremely flexible. Or Einsteins solar eclipse experiment and how no one believed him but he persevered, etc. Or how Oppenheimer assembled an incredible team and [some of] the challenges they had to overcome in the Manhattan project.

I guess I am more looking for interesting story telling based on real life event

On the contrary, these biographies serve as a reminder that most of the famous achievers were regular people once who went on to achieve great things. It humanizes those that the public only sees as heroes.

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