What does Self Esteem do?
I was just thinking about this the other day … I have been away for some consulting work and haven’t been so close to my blog … but I have been thinking about self esteem.
It’s perhaps a little too easy to just accept that high and low self esteem are ‘things’ that we must address. But why do we have self esteem at all -Â what is the purpose of appraising our own self worth, of evaluating ourselves?
I think it comes from our evolution. It is suggested (I can supply academic references but won’t for the sanity of this blog!) that we evolved ‘consciousness’ to help us understand our neighbors … to evaluate enemies and to second guess their actions.
And also for us to evaluate ourselves - to ’step outside’ of our own doingness and try to work out how we could be better.
Balanced carefully, this has obviously served us well over many thousands of years.
But maybe our modern day society has slowly encroached on this internal mechanism by forcing us to continuously evaluate ourselves … are we OK? Is our hair glossy enough? Do we have enough shiny new things?
The relentless assault on our unworthiness can perhaps even beta some people into feeling less worthy than they truly are.
The good news is, the same internal evaluation mechanism can be used to repel these unwanted comparisons and its an easy to learn skill. (Yes, my free building self esteem techniques will definitely help!).
All the best!
Robert
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