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The Wizard of Oz

1939

Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well.

102 min

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05:52

Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Psychology of Self-Reliance

In this video, drawing from Ralph Waldo Emerson's classic essay, we examine what it means to be self-reliant.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
2018
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The Art of Trusting One's Self - the Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
2020
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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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Robert Greene on Self-Reliance

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2012
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What Does It Mean to Be Self-Reliant?

Many people misunderstand the word self- reliance. They understand it as a poor, difficult or isolated life. In this video I share my understanding of self-reliance and what it means to live a self-reliant lifestyle.

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2019
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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson
2016
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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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Overcoming Helplessness: Advice from William James

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

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Edward Hoffman
2020
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