Caution; Objectivists should never try to mimic or live like Ms. Rand's fictional characters.

Back in the 1960's the vile and odious Nathaniel Brandon proposed a special kind of psychology based on people mirroring the characters in Ayn Rand's novels. Note; Ayn had nothing to do with this and it was all Nathaniel's own doing. He thought that the characters in Ayn's books were so perfect (and they are) that the idea was to make the average client as perfect. This is very dangerous to make therapy based on conditioning someone to try and meet the expectations of a perfect character which is fictional.

Ayn justly stopped all association with Nathaniel Brandon over this and other devious behavior which showed he was a scoundrel unable to be trusted. Please; this is a warning Ayn paints a picture of what she called the Ideal Man and Woman and her characters are not intended to be realistic. They are not to be role modeled you are you and you are not John Galt or Dagney Taggert please do not try to emulate these people. Trying to copy fiction into real life could be deadly.