You might be right.. you can have all kinds of inspiring people in your life though, ones that you might not feel the same kinds of pressures from. Like putting up Claudia Donovan from the show Warehouse 13 - the character she plays is really bright, but is definitely a get-into-trouble-first-and-ask-questions-later personality. Or for a real life example, Grace Hopper, who developed the first compiler for a computer language, who said “It is better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission”. You might try risking more to impress them, as long as you had a clear picture of what their personalities were like—they might be the kinds of people you’d get in trouble with...
You might be right.. you can have all kinds of inspiring people in your life though, ones that you might not feel the same kinds of pressures from. Like putting up Claudia Donovan from the show Warehouse 13 - the character she plays is really bright, but is definitely a get-into-trouble-first-and-ask-questions-later personality. Or for a real life example, Grace Hopper, who developed the first compiler for a computer language, who said “It is better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission”. You might try risking more to impress them, as long as you had a clear picture of what their personalities were like—they might be the kinds of people you’d get in trouble with...