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The Myth of Self-Reliance

By Jenny Odell — 2020

An encounter with Emerson’s essays.

Read on www.theparisreview.org

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Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson | Animated Book Summary

I animated my summary of Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson. On top of my personal story of growing up pretty much on my own I share how to achieve Self-Reliance and how I set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant & time-bound (SMART) goals for myself.

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