No matter what creative field one chooses for their own path, a commonality is to look up to someone successful in that field. Someone to aspire to. Someone who has achieved in that creative field what we want to aim for.
Our hero is always an individual from our personal life or a creative field. The benchmark for who we want to be.
But what if that approach was not as life-affirming as another. What if there was someone else we should be looking up to. Someone to chase.
When Matthew McConaughey won the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club at the 86th Oscars, he gave one of the greatest speeches that The Academy has ever witnessed. It went viral at the time and continues to inspire those that discover it for the first time. Because in this speech Matthew shares who we should be looking up. Who we should be chasing.