We have a tendency to put people on pedestals – successful sportspeople, celebrities, businesspeople – and there’s no doubt that what some people are able to create can be phenomenal. But, it is a mistake to project Godlike status onto such people, as if they really are a superior species. They are fallible human beings like the rest of us. I call this ‘the illusion of mental hierarchies’, and seeing through it is so valuable as you stop believing that some people are more important or valuable than you, and that you are more important than anyone else. So many of us are striving to prove that we are someone special – but we just need to recognise that we are all equally special, and always have been. To illustrate this one is former Liverpool and England footballer John Barnes. 

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