Self-Reliance Doesn’t Mean Going Alone
Free your mind
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5 min readSep 17, 2020
If you were a high school junior in New York State during the 1980s, there’s a good chance an excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance was required reading.
My dutiful butt was in the chair, but my mind was wandering the halls and humming jazz music, until I heard the phrase “a foolish consistency is a hobgoblin of little minds.”
