Some questions are not meant to produce a clever answer. They are meant to change the angle at which you stand.
Which way of being feels true?
That question does not ask which life looks impressive, which identity photographs well, or which posture wins applause from the room. It asks what manner of living has the ring of reality in it: what kind of attention, what kind of discipline, what kind of speech, what kind of pace.
Most people get lost by asking whom to imitate. They would do better to ask what form of life feels less false.