First Impression: On Self-Reliance

My thoughts as I read "On Self-Reliance"

New vocabulary

eminent: well-known/well respected 

conventional: what everyone does 

admonition: warning 

toil: work 

latent: hidden 

- Our acts our angels are, or good or ill = we are defined by our actions (what we say/do)

- The belief in you is what everyone should agree with (that's "genius") not the actual thought itself  

- Thinking for one's self is more important then conforming to someone else's thoughts 

- Its worth celebrating our own differences in opinion because that is more important 

- Separation due to differences has such a negative connotation the we forget to realize that we should embrace our differences because that's what makes us unique not selfish 

- How can you be yourself and at the same time be someone else? You can't because then your original self of who you are will die 

- The only champion/captain of our life is us "you"--> the effort of our work demonstrates the "champion" we wish to become