Abraham Lincoln's Advice on Learning, Work, Smartphones, and Anxiety
Dig deeper, and we find a man whose words and life have much to teach us today, particularly teens and 20-somethings. Let's take a look.
Get Yourself an Education
Had Lincoln depended only on his bits and pieces of formal schooling for his learning, he likely would have ended up semi-literate. Inspired by his stepmother, Sarah, and driven by a burning desire to read and to write well, he instead put the meager resources of his prairie cabin home to good use to
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