My Big Question

I have many questions, some can be answered easily while others need more hard to work to find the answer to. But my one “Big Question” is that do we actually need an education to make it in life, and does it matter where we live or who we are as a person play a role in it. Because many people state that the only way to have a nice life in our generation today is to have a good education and to graduate from college. But I have seen many people make it, Elon Musk stated that “You don’t need a college degree to be successful”. While I have seen people with no education become homeless with nothing to live for and others that do bad things in order to make money for themselves like sell illegal things or be in gangs. But those people haven’t obviously tried to be successful. But with all that, is it true for someone with little to no education make it and have a nice life without being involved in anything illegal?

"On Self-Reliance Part 4"

This part four of my sighting on the essay "On Self-Reliance" by Emerson. On the essay it is said "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,..." which means that someone is so used to do something daily, over and over again that they don't want any change to happen. But you should always want change because change is what helps us learn and evolve. This essay also had "To be great is to be misunderstood." That quote in my opinion is one of the best I have ever heard in my lifetime so far. Because greatness is where someone does something so great that nobody understands how or why that person has done that. Then the people that want to be great would want to follow and try to repeat the steps of that greatness in order to be just like that person. Anyone can be great as long as you try and do things that other people are to afraid to do because they have "hobgoblins" in their minds.

"On Self-Reliance" Part 3

"For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure." What this is basically saying is that nobody wants to do anything that discomfort them or makes them feel uneasy. Because if you really think about it who would want to go out of there way to do something that might hurt them or make them feel different about themselves. The only reason people do that is to improve themselves and be greater than what you really are and learn. Because if you don't go out to fail then you will never learn how to get better and improve your self at anything in life. Once you set yourself to fail then you will understand how to grow and improve you and the people around you.

"On Self-Reliance" Part 2

As I keep reading this essay I am baffled by some of the sentences this author has wrote down. Like "The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried." Which means to me that if he or she doesn't take the chance to learn, fail and take that choice you really don't want to do you will never know what you really can do in life. This essay to me so is about people and not noticing their mistakes and not knowing how to make themselves better for the people around them, or even just for themselves. Because humans thrive on communication and without it nothing will ever get done and the human species will go extinct. So understanding this essay and what this author is trying to say is a huge factor in understanding what you can do and how you can still be you and nobody else, becasue there is and will be only one of you in any lifetime.

First Impression: On Self-Reliance

My first impression On Self-Reliance was that basically everything that the author has wrote is in fact true for most people alive today. In the introduction "Ne te quaesiveris extra" the author stated "Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,". What I think he means by this is that whatever we do, weather its good or bad will affect what we become in out future."To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,-that is genius."