Sipher

It is said that Lincoln suffered depression his whole life and yet achieved greatness. I was going through a book that talks about him and his contemporary greats of his field. The more details I come to know about him, the more I found his persona mystic. It looked to me that he had layers to his views. The way he approached his upbringing, seems to have an impact on his approach towards events that happened in the rest of his life. In fact, it seems in his early youth days, he even struggled to come up with some kind of significant achievement that could have given him some confidence about the way his life was shaping. Since the time he stepped into the professional field(he started with the law), he remained realistic in his approach. The views expressed by his contemporary about him reflect that he was the person who lived on minimalist resources and yet gone through moments where scarcity of intimacy or lack of support of people almost pushed him to the brink of complete breakdow...