
Episode 102: Emerson on Wisdom and Individuality
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Self-Assuredness
People are actually more conforming, even without having a external authority putting their thumb down on them. So it's that kind of absurd there's a timidness at an academic level where everything must be foot noted. And also its enormous interference with people's joy and their spontaneous discovering things of things for themselves. I think emerson is right. You appeal to those sources when it's really necessary, but otherwise, you just do it.you pretend that there's nothing before you.
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