Learning more about life from others' biographies

Biographies are brilliant learning tool, I have always been a huge fun of them. Recently I have re-discovered The Biography Channel which I have always had an access to on my cable TV, but did not pay as much attention as I should have. It is amazing how much you can learn about life from other people mistakes, misconceptions, ideas, good and bad choices and often plain stupidity. And we all know that there is nothing better than learning from mistakes of others. This is why biographies and autobiographies serve me as role models now, illustrating how prominent or successful people experience triumphs, failures, and hardships throughout their lives. They are often full of fascinating details you would not normally know about or simply never heard of from media or other books. Each of the one hour shows enables you to get a good understanding of someone's choices they made in life and what impact and outcome it had on their journey through life, their career and their works and how you can apply this knowledge to your own situation, your own life. Biographies are also an amazing resources about the relationship between someone's life and times they lived in, so you get clear picture of history as well. Learn from others by reading or watching biographies, you will be amazed how many of them will have direct relationship to you in one way or the other. Yesterday was a great piece about Andy Warhol and tomorrow at 10pm there is a biography of Salvador Dali!