All posts tagged "Self Esteem"
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How to Work With a Narcissist
For better or for worse, people often possess “less than ideal” character qualities or behaviors that make working...
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Supporting a Daughter that is Self-harming
Self-harming is when people cause themselves physical pain in the hope that it will alter their mood state....
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Overcoming Bias
Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we’ve seen in the cases of Michael Brown in...
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Entrepreneurial Grit
Certain words invoke powerful images in the mind—and “grit” is one of those words. When we associate grit...
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Self Esteem Project
About 10,000 people a month Google the phrase, “Am I ugly?” Meaghan Ramsey of the Dove Self-Esteem Project...
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Let Me Take a Selfie
As a member of Generation X, I find selfies to be, well, almost comical. It’s photography taken by...
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Resilience for Life
Resilience, as you probably know, is the ability to ‘bounce back’, to recover from difficulties. Resilience is something...
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Express who you are
Every day you want to do many things, from hugging your lover to earning money. Why? What feeling...
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Successfully Calm
The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance....
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Best Foot Forward
Rachael Oakes-Ash uncovers the secrets of overcoming the fear of public speaking and presenting. The sweat is dripping...
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Delivering happiness
Excerpt Introduction: Finding My Way Wow, I thought to myself. The room was packed. I was on stage...
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Tim Minchin
Comedian-musician Tim Minchin addresses graduates at the University of Western Australia where he was presented with an Honorary...
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Plug into Your Hard-Wired Happiness
Srikumar Rao says we spend most of our lives learning to be unhappy, even as we strive for...
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Our Urgent Need for Self-Esteem
Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on...
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7 Steps to Loving Yourself
“A troop of porcupines is milling about on a cold winter’s day. In order to keep from freezing,...
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Self-Esteem in the Information Age
This essay appears in the Drucker Foundation’s collection of business essays, The Organisation of the Future (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997)....
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When to Trust Your Gut
That little voice that nudges you when you’re stuck between two choices? It’s real. You’re faced with a...
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Kicked in the Rear?
Greek philosopher Aristotle said, “Criticism is something you can avoid easily—by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”...
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Handling Cash could bring Pain Relief
THE GIST: Handling money reduces the amount of pain people feel. In separate experiments, negative experiences, both physical...
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The Unique Self
What do you think of when you hear the words “Unique Self”? Childhood memories of gold stars and...
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Evolution and Ego
When you develop and reach higher value levels (referencing the values levels and Memes identified by Clare Graves...
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Unleashing Your Real Self
One of the perennial questions of philosophy and psychology (as well as theology and perhaps some other disciplines)...
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The Final Word about Self-Esteem
I have never written an article on “the final word about” anything. Nothing. Zip. Nada. But now I...
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The Ego Myth
While there are numerous myths about self-actualization, there is one myth that is actually dangerous. At least, it...
