How to be more like The Doctor
The Doctor’s an ancient being who travels through space and time in a wooden box and is always the smartest person in the room. There are far, far worse things than wanting to be a little bit more like Doctor Who.
The face may change every few years, but the Doctor is always the Doctor; an eccentric mass of compassion, cleverness and contradiction. These constants make the titular time lord a genuinely fantastic, fantasy hero — and, curiously, a more realistic role model than many other fictional characters.
Even when he’s a she.
You don’t need a police call box that’s bigger on the inside or to have spent billions of years in a confession dial to be a better, more adventurous and more principled version of you.
Let’s count down the ways you can be more like the Doctor.
The Doctor is never cowardly or cruel
Former script editor and Doctor Who writer Terrance Dicks was first to describe the Gallifreyan runaway as “never cowardly or cruel”. Those words were used again as the Doctor’s motto in the 50th-anniversary episode “The Day of the Doctor”.
