Book description
This very small book is Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, Self-Reliance, translated into modern English by me, Adam Khan. When I tell people about translating Emerson, the first thing people always ask me is, “Why would his work need to be ‘translated?’ After all, he lived a fairly short time ago…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Self-Reliance, Translated as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is one of the books I gifted most to family & friends.
Why?
It resonates with me. It challenges you to live true to yourself. No matter what the world thinks.
Reading this helped me feel confident about being and expressing my true Self. And thus urged me to connect to my inner truth 😉.
Also, self-reliant human beings is what the world needs.
Why the "translated" version?
Frankly, because I didn't really understand the original very well 😅.
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