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In the way that any dude having a hot girl on his arm is using her as a 'selling point' just by showing her off, I'd argue.
I just recall a period of time where she was showing up in his posts with semi-regularity in a kind of "Look at what I got fuckers" context. Can only find this one piece of evidence left, though. Wait, here's another.
Slight disagree, only insofar as someone who actively chooses to convey advice and represent themselves as a person worth emulating... you kind of do owe it to your audience to be very open about failures as well as successes.
Or if you don't care to advertise failure, don't seek the audience.
But that much I will 100% say: he never, ever did grift off his audience. No crypto schemes, no scammy seminars or conferences, no shilling for sketchy brands or gambling sites (that I recall).
(I'm not counting his failed entrepreneurship attempts as scams because part of the reason they failed is he plugged them earnestly.)
What Scott's obituary does seem to acknowledge is that Scott WAS living life on his terms, and there's beauty in that, but he argues he kind of let that get swept away when he got a taste of true 'influence.'
That's a very cynical point of view, but you can not really fault him for your perception. I mean, what, is he supposed to lock his wife up at home so you don't suspect him in "showing off"? I think this is going way too far.
I am not sure the guy who literally talks about "failing at almost everything" in a very title of his book is a good target to accuse of hiding his failures.
I think there's a difference between a person who is willing to share his opinions - and let people be influenced by them, which is kind of the point of sharing them anyway, not? - and a person who must subject his whole life to forming some kind of heroic example for the followers. I don't think it is fair to demand from everybody who shared one's opinion publicly to become full-time role model.
My cynical point of view has an extremely good track record of predictions, sad to say.
Should he have? She ended up leaving him. His extant strategy clearly didn't work.
For better or worse, he adopted that approach, near daily streaming and constant commentary on daily events
You could definitely pick WORSE role models, but I think he was happily putting himself out there in that regard.
Predictions of what? You can't know what Adams was actually thinking, so what exactly are you predicting and how would you verify this prediction?
Anyone can do that. I have a blog. I put my opinions there (no, I won't link it here). People read it. If anybody would demand of me to do something to their liking because I owe them for being their role model, I will tell that person to stuff it. And also probably find a responsible adult to run their other life decisions by, because it's clearly not within their competencies.
There are literally millions of people putting shit on the internet all the time. So yes, Adams was one of them. So what?
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