In the book, you talk about how Thoreau believed that manual labor could be made into something beautiful. There's the other view that says work is a curse, right? And I would say most of us float somewhere in between those two things. One of his best friends, Ralph Waldo Emerson, said, your giant follows you wherever you go. So sometimes it's not going to matter if you change occupations without changing yourself beforehand.

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