아싸라비아!! I’m back! ^_^
Hello, bloggers. I just read some great articles about self-esteem and self-worth, then it triggered me to write about on this blog, so here I’m ^_^
As for myself, there are two important things you must have to gain a happy life, SELF-ESTEEM and SELF-WORTH. So, what are self-esteem and self-worth? Here’s the definitions I got. As I’m not a psychologist or someone dealing in psychology field (I’m just a psychology lover, anyway ^_^), I checked dictionary and some sources to find them out, so no worries I didn’t take the definition only based on my own 😀
Self-esteem is belief and confidence in your own ability and value based on your actions, it’s what you have control over. Meanwhile, self-worth is the value you give to your life and achievements. It is the ability to comprehend and accept your true value. So, from the definition itself, you know how crucial those two things are. When someone has low on one of them or, even worse, surely the life of his or hers will be like a hell, there will be no peace and happiness in their life ^_^
Self-esteem answers the question, “How do I feel about who I am?” It’s how you feel about yourself either from inside or outside. It is not inherited from your fam
ily, but it should be learnt from your family and also from your environment. Meanwhile, the best way to understand self-worth is to ask yourself how valuable you are, or how much you deserve to have something you deserve. According to Dr. Firestone, self-worth should be less about measuring yourself based on external actions and more about valuing your inherent worth as a person, also as a human 😛 (I think)
From explanation above, surely you’re now curious in what level your self-esteem, aren’t you? 😀 Is it low? high? Or even over high making you as a narcissist one, LOL. I’ll discuss the symptoms how to check it on my next posting. Just looking forward it, guys!
References:
- http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in-depth/self-esteem/art-20047976
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hide-and-seek/201510/self-confidence-versus-self-esteem
- http://onlinecounsellingcollege.tumblr.com/post/20138832673/self-worth-versus-self-esteem
- http://brendastanton.com/self-worth-vs-self-esteem