Emerson: The Mind on Fire
“Solitude and Leadership,” William Deresiewicz
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
21 best ideas in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay on Self Reliance (via justin murphy)
Most people do not trust their own beliefs. The essence of genius is simply to trust yourself—to infer that whatever seems most true in your heart is most true in reality—and for everybody else, too, despite whatever they may claim.
There is hardly anything more painful
Who is he that shall control me?
Why may not I act & speak & write & think
with entire freedom? What am I to the
Universe, or, the Universe, what
is it to me?
Why may not I act & speak & write & think
with entire freedom? What am I to the
Universe, or, the Universe, what
is it to me?
Emerson: Who is He that Shall Control Me?
One: we are all self-contained geniuses. Every one of us innately has greatness inside of us, or, as Emerson puts it, “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
Al Pittampalli • Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World
