Excellent post - very worthy of a !PIZZA 😁
My thoughts on role models are that you need different role models for different things. A role model for business will probably be different to one for family matters and have very different things to teach.
Role models also need role models in turn, and something I look at is who my role models' role models are. For example, one of my role models is Maximilien Robespierre. He did some terrible things, but what I admire about him is that he was steadfast in his ideals and (in an age where corruption was the norm) was famously incorruptible. His role models in turn were people like Rousseau, Montesquieu and Lucius Junius Brutus - all worthy idealists.