The following text demonstrates surprising modernity. Its author, Ralph Waldo Emerson, develops the idea that self-confidence, which is essential to the development of each person, is necessarily associated with anticonformism. To get out of the gravity of social frameworks, to learn to think and see the world without being influenced by public opinion and propriety, would be the path that all great men take.So we must not be afraid of being ourselves, always follow his intuition and never give up the daily struggle against the multiple sources of formatting imposed on us by life in society.