In these troubled times—and they are much more troubled than you’re being told—you might want to take at a look at this.
In 1841 American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote his Self-Reliance classic. In straight forward subject-verb-object English: “Insist on yourself; never imitate. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
Emerson is most likely best known for this quote: “"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."[1]
Emerson promoted a call for “staunch individualism,” the need to follow your own dreams and trust your own intuitions and leanings. Avoid conformity for conformity only sakes.
Though he never lived to see it, today it’s your airplane, your name is on the fuselage, and you sit in the cockpit so be brave and bold enough to fly it, a siren song to all small business owners, athletes, entrepreneurs and dreamers.