Term

Self-esteem

How you feel about yourself and understand your own worth.

Feeling Good, David Burns

Explained in

• Feeling Good, David Burns
• The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt, Russ Harris

  A person's opinion of their own worth, which depends on how they rate their successes and qualities.

• Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, Kristin Neff

  A judgment of your own worth: how good, capable and deserving a person believes they are. Neff shows that it often depends on success and on comparison with others.

• The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Nathaniel Branden

  In Branden's definition, the disposition to experience yourself as competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and as worthy of happiness.

• Stop Checking Your Likes, Susie Moore

  How a person sees their own worth overall. Moore teaches you to build it on your own opinion, not on other people's approval.

• How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie

  a person's inner sense of their own worth; it's easy to wound and important to protect in the other person

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