"You have to SEE IT TO BE IT". You do? So you emulate others who were before you? So who was the FIRST TO BE IT who clearly didn't see it?

Maybe "see" in this case means VISUALIZE. Not "see" someone who achieved it to use as a role model.

Otherwise the first person to BE IT had no one to follow so that makes no sense at all does it?

Sounds great but when you boil it down what do you have? More gibberish.