Self-Reliance & Other Essays

Name: Self-Reliance & Other Essays
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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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246 pages~4.1 hr readPublished by Grapevine (21st November, 2023)Published 2020-12-22

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You're tired of doing what others expect and want permission to trust your own instincts.
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Self-Reliance is an 1841 essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that presents his transcendentalist philosophy on individualism. The essay develops one of Emerson's central themes: the importance of resisting conformity and false consistency in order to follow one's own instincts and ideas. Emerson examines what he calls the "aboriginal self" as a foundation for universal reliance. He argues that individualism is essential to personal satisfaction and that anyone can achieve happiness by changing their mindset. The essay contains his well-known statement that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Throughout the work, Emerson emphasizes seemingly minor details to illustrate his view that life involves a continuous cycle of learning, forgetting, and learning again.

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