Episode 256: Exploring The Transcendentalists, Basic Portfolio Comparisons, Bill Bernstein's Bond Ladder And Portfolio Reviews As Of April 21, 2023
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The Importance of Self-Reliance
All of what we know today as the self-help genre and those kind of ideas actually flows back and comes from Emerson and Thoreau in many ways. His ideas and even his way of speaking was adopted by many, particularly those on the anti-slavery or abolitionist movement since he was one of those people from Massachusetts. If you're familiar with the speeches of Abraham Lincoln, a lot of it reflects essentially Emerson. That part of that speech reflects straight back to self-reliance about not being consistent with the past just to be consistent.
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