Role Models // On Culture Preservation // Chapter One

Graça Machel & Desmond Tutu 

Are On The List of My Favorite 
Great Role Models As Mozambican And Southern East African.

Graça Machel

 A role model is a person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, especially by younger people.

Why do we use role-models to help society  specially children learn the skills needed to be a motivated self-learner? Because modeling the behavior, thoughts, and attitudes of successful people has been shown to help a person become more successful.
Research has shown that almost all of the successful people today (success defined as setting and reaching one’s own goal) had a series of role-models

By introducing  role-models for all aspects of their lives, you are growing their imagination. With good role-models, you get to imagine success.

Desmond Tutu

Role-models are a very powerful force for setting and achieving productive goals. Our minds are naturally developed to learn from the experience of others. Whether the experience is captured in the form of books, stories, or games – the experience of others offers a very powerful way to reach a higher level of success.

It is imperative that those be exposed to good role-models that can guide them to develop their maximum potential in all aspects of their lives. Children naturally look to their surroundings for role-models. If they cannot find a good role-model, they will cling to bad ones.
 

Young Generation need a set of good role-models to set an example of the behaviors, thinking styles, and attitudes needed to succeed in life.
A person  that is intelligent, but does not have role-models to show them qualities like persistence, determination, and creative thinking is bound to be fall short of their true potential. 

Desmond Tutu  and Graça Machel

Having good role-models in a life will give them a sense of productive goals and a sense of direction towards those goals. Humans without goals and role-models flounder in their lives.  A survey of successful people show that they envisioned their ambitious goals at a young age. These very same successful folks also had positive role-models that they followed to reach their goals.
At the very least, take some time at the dinner table once a week and introduce your child to successful attitudes by telling them stories about successful people throughout human history.
For example, introduce your child to the positive quality of persistence by talking about Edison and his quest to invent the light bulb. Talking about the fact that Edison persisted through 10,000 failures until he finally found a way to make the light bulb. Mention how Edison’s success came from his failures.
Stories like these will help inspire your child to be a motivated self-learner and practical dreamer. 

Graça Machel and ex Husband which is current Widow Nelson Mandela

When a role model becomes a bad thing is of course when that idolization becomes more of an obsession and your affections become blind. If you have a role model that you really aspire to be like and they change their clothes or hair cut, then it's harmless and gratifying to borrow some of that style advice yourself. Similarly if your favorite artist/writer/philosopher should influence your own work, then again this is normal and gives you more of a solid foundation to build upon.
The problem then though comes when you become so obsessed with that role model that you end up losing your own sense of self and your own identity.
And if you are blatantly following every fashion decision that your Role Model makes then you are in fact being nothing like him or Her – because the trait that you aspire to be like is the bravery to try new things and to create fashion trends, not to copy someone else's. 

Remember that though the person is your hero, they are still human. How they achieve greatness despite their character flaws is partly what's to be admired (though this is a benefit of a fictional hero – Optimus Prime rarely does go on drunken binges... ).

Desmond Tutu and one of his Best Friend Dalai Lama

There are a couple of things to remember. The first is that your role models weren't born successful. In fact they probably went through a time very similar to you and if you were to look at how they started out then you'd realize that they might too have one day thought they'd never make it.

For Childrens
Rather let them choose their role models mostly themselves then choose which choices you want to support. Take an interest in what your children are watching and listening to, and if you think it's a good influence then encourage this behavior by giving them the financial means to continue.

Source info´s  Health Guidance & Curiosoft

Culture Preservation Chapter 1