By Jenny Odell — 2020
An encounter with Emerson’s essays.
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In this video, drawing from Ralph Waldo Emerson's classic essay, we examine what it means to be self-reliant.
Emerson's combination of eastern and western philosophies provided a uniquely eclectic perspective for his time. Today, his ideas may seem to permeate the common place, which is only a testament to the influence his work had on the world at large.
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.