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Overcoming Helplessness: Advice from William James

By Edward Hoffman — 2020

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

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The Link Between Self-Reliance and Well-Being

Done right, individualism has tremendous benefits for our senses of competence, effectiveness, and life direction.

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Arthur C. Brooks
2021
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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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