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Podcast: Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®
Episode: Esteem
Description: Esteem means respect and admiration. Hence, self-esteem would mean respect and admiration for yourself. Self-worth and self-esteem are the same thing to me, whereas self-confidence is your faith (or lack thereof) that you can do something: efficacy.
Pride is feeling proud of your accomplishments, but vanity is insisting that others hear about them, as well.
The pandemic, foreign wars, polarization, AI, demographic change, and climate change are all contributing to the diminishment of self-esteem. People feel as if they’ve lost control, need too much permission (TSA), and lack power. Pandemic approaches seemed to be more about politics than medicine. An...