In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self Reliance” essay he starts by defining genius: “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.” In saying this Emerson conveys that you should not be ashamed of your thoughts or ideas because there is a good chance that somebody else has the same thought. When he says “to believe your own thought” he saying that you need to put that thought into action before someone else does so and gets the credit for it. Emerson then says to trust in your thoughts and to never have doubts about them because other people are having the same thoughts and when you doubt them, you delay putting them into action. He opens his essay with this statement because it accurately conveys his feelings about the thought of the human mind.
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