Professor Elam

Friday Oct 28, 2011

We began the semester reading Emerson's Essay on Self Reliance. Here is link to Kirk Tuck's blog

http://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/

THe post on 10/26/2011 is what I specifically want you to read. Now what does a blog on photography have to do with an Emerson Essay on Self Reliance, and particularly in an accounting class?  Glad you asked. College is all about finding your self, expanding your horizons, and getting a life focus. Or as Kirk says

It's important to travel outside your usual visual space. Outside your cultural comfort zone.  Outside your social network/safety net.  It's important to learn to be comfortable my yourself.  Many psychological studies point to the power that groups have to subtly and even unconsciously push you into conforming.  Into synchronizing into the pattern of the group.  If you want to express an individual vision you have to become individual.  There's no other way to do it.

So get up and get out, mentally that is. Trust and know thyself, you might discover someone one want to get to know.