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Does anyone really believe it's wise to copy anyone? Copying leaves no room for understanding. Understanding is how you get better.

It's good to be exposed to a variety of perspectives and points of view, but you have make your own way forward. Take whatever you find useful and leave the rest behind. Fill in the gaps with your own ideas.

The worst thing you can do is stop thinking for yourself.




A forum member at banjo hideout's sig is: "Be yourself, everyone else is taken." I think that applies here as well.




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