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The Myth of Self-Reliance

By Jenny Odell — 2020

An encounter with Emerson’s essays.

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Becoming Emotionally Self-Reliant

I’m the first to admit that for many years, I was a bit emotionally needy. Not in a crazy, desperate way, but in the way that many of us are. I wanted someone else to make me happy, blamed others for my unhappiness, sought to fulfill my emotional needs through others.

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Leo Babauta
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Trust Yourself: Emerson on Self-Reliance as the Essence of Genius and What It Means to Be a Nonconformist

No one has made more beautiful nor more convincing a case for trusting our inner voice than Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Maria Popova
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What Is Self-Reliance and How to Develop It?

A look at what being self-reliant really refers to, and how we can develop it within ourselves.

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Catherine Moore
2020
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Who's Never Going to Let You Down?

It's not that I'm blind to life's fragility or the dangers around me. It's just that I possess a gift offered by many mistake-filled years: At my age, I have a pretty good idea what and whom to trust.

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Martha Beck
2009
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The Difference Between Grown-Ups and “Adult-Children”

Still clinging to the fears and fury of childhood? You can unarrest your development once and for all.

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Martha Beck
2020
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How Tony Robbins Created an Empire by Being the Most Confident Man on Earth: The World's Most Famous Self-Help Entrepreneur Lets Us into His Lair.

If Tony Robbins told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it? Marc Benioff would. He did.

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What If You Could Have Direct Influence Over Your Destiny and Your Health? Discoveries in Quantum Science Reveal It’s Possible. Here’s How…

You may know certain people who seem to magically be able to manifest almost anything they want in life.

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Sue Morter
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If Self-Discipline Feels Difficult, Then You’re Doing It Wrong

Many equate self-discipline with living a good, moral life, which ends up creating a lot of shame when we fail. There’s a better way to build lasting, solid self-discipline in your life.

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Mark Manson
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Overcoming Helplessness: Advice from William James

More than a century ago, William James explained how to combat passivity.

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Edward Hoffman
2020
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‘I Realized I Don’t Have to Believe My Thoughts’

Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that we are not in a trance—lost inside our thoughts.

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Tara Brach
2014
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