Redo: Day 9: 10 people who have influenced me

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Posted on 9th April 2014

Please read the first one if you want to understand this one. The redone list looks like this. Still somewhat ambiguous but whatever... names are still made up. I literally searched up Names starting with *LETTER* and picked the first name corresponding to their gender.

1. That guy who talked in my tutor is still the most influential. I've talked about him a lot so I won't bring him up again. Original Number: 1
2. I think one of the most influential people in my life that I forgot about in the old list was a friend we'll call Addie. Addie was an amazing girl. She was several years older than me, but she was tiny like a midget. She basically made me become the person I am today. She influenced me to become dirty minded, which was funny. Because back in my high school days I would believe ridiculous things about girls, like how they were perfect. Heck she even made me get into pickup, which was very nice of her.
3. This guy (We'll call him Adam) who has been friend's with my since year 8. We don't really hang out too much, but when we do hang out and have experiences together, they're pretty cool. Adam helped me a lot when I was in my "pick up girls" phase. We both had a system that we didn't really follow, but it was fun to try nonetheless. Massive influence on my life. Just the way Adam sees the world is very different to most people. Original Number: 4.
4. Another person who I didn't add on the list was a data mining teacher at my university (We'll call him David). He was a very lenient teacher. That was my favorite aspect of him. I was really used to teachers penalising me for not completing my work on time, and submitting it in late. Which is fine for the real world. I don't mind that too much. But he gave me leniency during a time when I needed it the most. It was like the world was trying to bring me down relentlessly, yet he was nice enough to be kind to me. That kindness brought me back to wanting to do my work properly again. Note: I never actually did, but it made me want to again. I somewhat did because of it. I stopped doing work at 4am, if it was due the next day. Anyways David basically prevented me from further performing poorly.
5. Similarly, there was another teacher like that (we'll call Eric). Eric was the guy who replaced David in teaching data analytics to us. We were put on a big project that we had a whole semester to complete. Honestly I thought he marked too nicely. I had to be a leader in that group, and basically we sucked at being a group. None of my team members would do their work, and I was shit leader. But yeah. He kept a passion inside me growing. Making me want to get into data mining even more.
6. Another teacher... I know right so many teachers (We'll call him Gabe). He too was a nice teacher. His teaching methods was really down to earth and made our struggles feel normal. I remember once Gabe saying to the class: "I've been there, I've had those 3 am nights sweating and struggling at this assignments. I'm not here to fail you. I'm here for you to learn. If you don't want to learn then why are you here." He said something similar to that. He put it into perspective the importance of education by showing us that in the world, no one will make you become a better person. You need to do that yourself, but people aren't there to fuck you up(there are exceptions I know...) , and that if you're trying to accomplish a similar goal to them, they've probably felt the same struggles that you are feeling right now.
7. Richard White was very good with speeches. Nothing has changed about that opinion. Original Number: 2.
8. To Clarify. This was a girl (We'll call her Beth) I had met once while out with my sister. We were just chilling and my relationship with my sister wasn't good. Yet I found my sister's friend to be really awesome, with the way she talked and how she changed my view on the world. Original Number: 3.
9. The guy I met "recently" (We'll call him Barry) was a great part of my life. But times change, Barry and I don't hang out anymore, but he did shift my direction. Somewhat. Original Number: 5.
10. The simple pickup guys were influential, but not as powerful as I thought. They shifted my understanding of the world. It was pretty informative, but I never used that knowledge. Mostly because I didn't go out of my way to pick up people. Original Number: 7.

Extra notes:

The magician guy I saw did influence me, but that was during my "pick up" phase. I somewhat remember it but I wouldn't even put him on the list. He was just someone I saw who I thought was pretty funny and good at what he did. Original Number: 6.