By Mike Krutzaand Jodi Wiff
How Do You Feel About Yourself?
Self esteem is highly valued in our culture. Our healthy perception of ourselves is crucial in successful dealings and relationships with other people. How we face and contend with challenges is also primarily influenced by our self esteem. How do you feel about yourself? Your answer to this question impacts how you treat other people. What do you think of yourself? How do you see yourself? These will also determine how other people will perceive and treat you. Self esteem is fundamental for our survival as human beings, just like fear and anger, according to William James? studies in 1890.
Self esteem is to be bolstered- we?ve seen countless of resources about this topic. Nonetheless, self esteem as a characteristic has many distinctions. How do you differentiate self esteem from vanity? Sometimes people might think that they are asserting their self-esteem, but they are actually feeding their self- seeking vanity.
Self Esteem Is Controversial
Dr. Solomon Sheldon who studies terror management theories raised some questions about self esteem. He said that being self assured as a characteristic is controversial. It is a common belief that we need to be self confident and self assured to boost our psychological and relational well being. Nonetheless, some people believe that a positive self image is not very important and that it can even lead to people being socially insensitive and violent. Problems can result from high self esteem, according to Dr. Sheldon, especially if it equates to narcissism and it results to people being increasingly aggressive.
Clarify Your Core Values
Thus, in leadership, we have to draw the line between self esteem and narcisissm. Let us first define what a healthy, positive self image is. Your perception of yourself is bolstered because of your values, accomplishments and kindness and compassion towards other people. On the contrary, self- centeredness means a person regards themself so highly because of their fear of weakness or failure. It is being too self absorbed and the excessive, irrational drive to become the best. The irony of being too self serving and narcissistic is that it stems from deep seated insecurity and feelings of inadequacy.
A solid self esteem is a vital element of successful leadership. It comes from your core values. Have you clarified your core values and are you resolved to hold fast to them in both good and bad times? You need elegant courage to be able to do so. Courage is the essential virtue from which other important virtues are born, and it can nurture a healthy self esteem.
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Jodi and Mike specialize in executive coaching with individuals and teams. http://lighthouse-leadership.com
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