Between the lines he delivered as Jean-Luc Picard and Professor X - even if they were written by someone else - they shaped my worldview.
The perspectives he spoke in my formative years on the human condition and being a singular representation of true leadership are hallmark examples that I strive for. I know he was acting - it doesn’t matter, it’s aspirational.
His love for life, all life; transcended the screen, as evidenced by his hijinks in recent memory with another anointed knight - Sir Ian McKellen.
We are richer for knowing him and poorer for having lost him…
So much this. Once you can detach yourself from your ideal vision of external perception and make your self worth determined by you, yourself and not your work it makes life so much easier.
Talking about your skill sets in a different frame can help. So can exploring things outside of work. Life is so much more than work, regardless of what the machine would have you think.