Perspective & Wisdom
There are a few things I re-read every year. One is “Self Reliance” by Emerson. Here’s what stood out to me this time:
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for https://t.co/1jqZs7VMGJ
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
My favorite idea from the Foundation Trilogy
