Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mar 31, 2024
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Episode description
By ‘Self-Reliance’, Emerson means learning to trust ourselves and listen to our inner voice, which he defines as ‘intuition’. Conformity to social expectations is the biggest obstacle to self-reliance. We must be prepared to go against the grain of popular opinion in order to follow our intuition.
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