Listen To What Heroes Copywriter Michel Fortin Says When He Answers the Heroes Question "Who are the HEROES in your life now?"
Michel Fortin: Oh, my goodness, do you have a couple of hours? I?m not a religious person. I am a very spiritual person and I read a lot on spiritual leaders because I believe they have a lot to teach us, whether it?s Jesus or the person actually I?m really referring to is the Buddha.
I?m not a Buddhist but I enjoy reading a lot about the Buddha. I?ve read the Darma Potta, the Bagabagita, for example, and other books of other spiritual leaders and they?re mentors to me because they show, you know, they lead by example.
They?re the perfect example of love and goodness in this world and what they teach is more important than, you know, I?m not going to say that you should believe in the virgin birth and the crucifixion and all that stuff in Jesus? life but did you actually take the chance to stop and just read the words that Jesus uttered, for example, on the Mount?
The lives that they led, whether, and I don?t mean to say that from a religious perspective, of course. I?m just saying; just listen to what people teach you. Listen, don?t just hear.
Those are the mentors that mean a lot to me. Another few mentors, modern-age mentors, I?m a big fan of Brian Tracy. I?m a big fan of Jim Rohn, of course and Tony Alessandra. The funny part about it is that I have learned a lot of things from current spiritual leaders and I do believe that Joseph Campbell, who is probably one of my biggest mentors in that realm, has taught me so much about the power of the inner self and Joseph Campbell is the one who uttered those famous words, ?Follow your bliss?, and he is one of them.
Florence Scobelshin is another. John Mandall Price. Those are more of the spiritual kind of guys, and Luis Haye, I read a lot about that stuff. Now, you can say it?s all metaphysical mumbo-jumbo.
The point is not to believe in whether it?s metaphysical or not. The fact is I just listened and learned to apply whatever I learned in the way I want to, to my life and that?s the whole point of any religious, any philosophy, any thinking process, it?s not to believe in what people tell you. It is to make use of it.