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WORK: Henry David Thoreau on Making a Meaningful Living

The Next Big Idea

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The Importance of Self-Reliance

The popular conception of Thoreau is that he can't get a job, so he just goes into the woods to do nothing. He's an interesting person around whom to build a book about work, right? John: We think about him as a writer principally, but we oftentimes forget that the real work of Walden was the act of sustaining himself.

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