Jorge‘s Ideas

• Learning changes your mind • “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” • “To be great is to be misunderstood” • I believe that i inspire my little cousins to play soccer and become better at playing because they look up to me and ask me to go outside and play soccer with them, they like to play soccer since they were little. They go to my games and they cheer for me when i score they scream loud and give me a high five and i go to their games and i do the same thing. • There are some parts that inspire me to think differently on how the world works such as where Emerson said “Our Acts Our Angels Are” that really got me to think differently because the way we act and what we do sort of defines of we are and who we are becoming.

• What does “forbear” mean? • Something that caught my attention in the essay was “ it is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinion” that really caught my attention because many people go with the world opinion and what the world says and what everyone does around the world. • A question that i have is, how would he know that we would feel like that 200 years later from when he wrote this essay ? was it cause he felt what he was saying and has gone through what he was saying ? • In the essay i noticed a like he said that is so true and that it even relates to me and the line said “ Under  all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are.” • In self reliance i read that i should be concerned about what i am going through and not what the world is going through and not be concerned about the world.

•What does “It is a deliverance which does not deliver” mean. •This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished memory. •A question that i have is what does “Self reliance is its aversion” mean. •What i think about what you said today in class was thinking about what other people say about you and how they judge you shouldn’t matter because it’s what you think that matters in life and what you wear and hat you think looks good for you not what other people say. •I think that his essay is making me realize a lot stuff about how to see yourself and other people differently than how you see them right now.

My first impression of Self Reliance is that you shouldn’t care about what other people want you to be or want you to do, you should be what you want to be and do what you wanna do and not care about what anyone else has to say cause you like or love what you did and you will continue to do it no matter what.