Do not try to emulate the best person or a past person from history. Learn that people make mistakes and missteps. Recognize the faults for what they are. No need to be a person who died 100 years ago when you are who you are now. Yeah sure learn from those who have gone before us but, do not try to be them.
Max Stirner, Emma Goldman, Benjamin Tucker, Buenaventura Durruti, Nestor Makhno, Pyotr Kropotkin, Mikhail Bakunin, Joseph Proudhon, Renzo Novatore, and the rest of them. They all are dead. You are alive.
They shaped our past and our present. You will shape the future.