My filtering criteria (maybe flawed) is “people whose biographies are still read after a few decades”. This way “non-rationalist” like Churchill gets read; looking for “rationalists” will end up selecting people too similar to you yourself to learn interesting things.
There are too many accomplished people in the world contradicting each other to not filter it somehow.
My filtering criteria (maybe flawed) is “people whose biographies are still read after a few decades”. This way “non-rationalist” like Churchill gets read; looking for “rationalists” will end up selecting people too similar to you yourself to learn interesting things.