A Foolish ConsistencyWhat Emerson really meant about changing your mind.

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That famous quote about consistency isn't a free pass to be unreliable. Ralph Waldo Emerson was making a deeper point about intellectual honesty and personal growth. In his essay "Self-Reliance," he argued against clinging to past beliefs out of fear of being judged. True self-reliance means trusting your own evolution of thought, even if it means contradicting what you said yesterday.