Self-Reliance and Our Sacred Inner Genius

Cultivating independent thinking and integrity is especially relevant today

Speaking your mind has tremendous power, even if it may draw ire and contempt. MikeDotta/Shutterstock

The need to protect the integrity of our own minds is an idea with a long history.

It was examined by American transcendentalist thinkers such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who both denounced the conformity of their age.