On Inventing Your Life

What are you going to do with that?

An essay adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May 2010.

Moral imagination is hard, and it’s hard in a completely different way than the hard things you’re used to doing. And not only that, it’s not enough. If you’re going to invent your own life, if you’re going to be truly autonomous, you also need courage: moral courage. The courage to act on your values in the face of what everyone’s going to say and do to try to make you change your mind.

— William Deresiewicz

Be sure to read the smart comments that balance out the article really well.

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MIT launches online learning initiative - MIT News Office

MIT expects that this learning platform will enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences. MIT also expects that MITx will eventually host a virtual community of millions of learners around the world.

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