{"id":1557,"date":"2019-06-14T17:12:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T17:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.essn.us\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2019-06-14T17:12:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T17:12:48","slug":"self-sufficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essn.us\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"Self sufficient"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Relying on other people for *character can be disappointing. As a child, I wandered the woods for solitude. Quality time has developed my individuality\u2014personality is what I struggled with. Then, I felt unimportant. Today, I&#8217;m still unimportant. The main difference is the developed sense of myself. One of my peers went so far as to say, &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to worry about this, you&#8217;re not going to college anyway.&#8221; Quality time with good company, self, often develops the character to cope with life, people, as well as insight into who we are.<br>* <em>&#8220;the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world can be filled with hostility. People really need an escape from that. Life is unpleasant occasionally. A healthy balance of solitude delivers enlightenment. Refreshing perspectives come about by letting harsh feelings resolve. Thinking for myself is the best encouragement I&#8217;ve ever received from a best friend. Who&#8217;s my best friend? Well, of course I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.essn.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/INFJ-confession.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1562\"\/><figcaption>INFJ is a personality trait.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>*Alfie Kohn has emphasized education, self-discipline, early development. Kohn wrote: &#8220;[&#8230;] imposing discipline on children (either to improve their behavior or so  they\u2019ll apply themselves to their studies) isn\u2019t nearly as desirable as  having children discipline themselves&#8221; (2008).<br><br>*Excerpt: <br><em>Kohn\u2019s criticisms of competition and rewards have been widely discussed and debated, and he has been described in&nbsp;Time&nbsp;magazine as \u201cperhaps the country\u2019s most outspoken critic of education\u2019s fixation on grades [and] test scores.<\/em> <strong>www.alfiekohn.org<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, I consider myself to be an over-educated, autodidact. Auto- means &#8220;<strong>self<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;didact&#8221; comes from <strong>the<\/strong> Greek <strong>word<\/strong> for &#8220;<strong>teach<\/strong>,&#8221; someone who&#8217;s <strong>self<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>taught<\/strong>. Regardless of what people think of our potential, it&#8217;s up to us as individuals to find our own sense of purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relying on other people for *character can be disappointing. As a child, I wandered the woods for solitude. Quality time has developed my individuality\u2014personality is what I struggled with. Then, I felt unimportant. Today, I&#8217;m still unimportant. The main difference is the developed sense of myself. One of my peers went so far as to&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","category-education","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}