According to emerson, why should people
trust themselves, and how does he support
“to
be great is to be misunderstood“？

This is a great question. Emerson supports this assertion with the fact that many people become famous after their death and were misunderstood during their own time. Painter Vincent Van Gogh and poet Edgar Allen Poe, for example, were not well known and were not considered great during their time. Yet they "trusted" themselves, despite being "misunderstood" by their contemporaries and they are now considered "great."

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