Self Esteem simply means the overall evaluation of yourself i.e your own worth. It is a subjective approach and hence can vary accordingly. Self-esteem directly proportionates your self-confidence, abilities to compete/feeling of competence and your tendency to make strong decisions. With time and experience, self-esteem increases eventually.
In the words of Osho, "The only thing that matters in your life is your opinion about yourself." With this statement, Osho directly highlighted the significance of healthy self-esteem. In a literal sense, if you lack self-esteem, you lack all the abilities necessary to prosper in life. Self-esteem is something that forms an utmost important element for living life with a positive or an optimistic outlook.
It is wisely said, " Focus on your strengths and not weaknesses." Now focussing on strength demands avoidance of distractions or the factors that diverge your focus and shift your mindset towards your weaknesses. In order to stabilize the focus, you need to be confident enough of your decision and confidence ultimately demands your ability to resist the impedance hindering your goal and finally, you need to have a sense of strong self-esteem to withstand your goal.
Well, I don’t think there’s a need to describe in detail the way we’re treated in our society. Memes and thousands of videos available over the internet are far more than enough to acquaint you with the problems faced by everyone. It's not something astonishing why 'Sharmaji ka ladka' attained such popularity.
A LOAD OF INSECURITIES
People often are not satisfied with the stuff they possess. They’re always in the hunger of possessing more and more and hence their so-called hunger for possessions never satisfies. Well if you’re not satisfied with what you have then you’re left with nothing but a ton of insecurities. And these insecurities stymied the development of your self-confidence and ultimately your self-esteem.
UNNECESSARY COMPARISONS
Comparing oneself with others is the natural instinct and is framed within human behaviour naturally so, there’s nothing to worry about but the bar limits to the extent till the comparison help us learn and grow in a community and also living together as cohesive groups but as this comparison ensures one is worse than the other, the whole concept of self-worth and self-esteem vanishes away. The one found superior ends up being a menace for the other.
OVERTHINKING AND REMINISCING TRAUMATIC PAST
Well, past events act as one of the most important degrading factors for self-esteem. We are well aware of the fact how difficult it is to forget something that happened in the past. But at the same time, if we’ll remain stuck in the past then the chances of growth at both biological and psychological levels will be affected. Past events may hold the evidence of your low self-esteem that probably developed because of some low grades in any class or some sort of materialistic insecurities or some other factors. We evolve every day and hence our intelligence, abilities, thinking, etc everything attain a new level. We need to comprehend our capabilities and need not let our traumatic past dominate.
If one wasn't quite confident and extrovert in his childhood that doesn't mean he'd remain the same throughout his life. The farrago of the past isn't something that can't be sorted.
CONFIDENCE AND SELF ESTEEM
Well, both confidence and self-esteem go side by side. The more confident you are, the higher your self-esteem is. Having enough confidence ensures your domination in the room. With confidence, your social interaction, ability to make bold decisions, withstanding judgements of others, etc improves.
If you let people’s perceptions of you dictate your behaviour then you can’t grow as a person.
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