Self-esteem is your opinion of yourself. How capable or incapable you think you are. It is a measure of how content you are with yourself and your abilities, in who you are. Self-esteem is relatively stable and enduring, though it can fluctuate in some cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Healthy self-esteem makes you resilient and hopeful about life.If you have healthy self-esteem, you feel good about yourself and see yourself as worthy of respect from others. When you have low self-esteem, you put little value on your opinions and thoughts. You constantly look for validation from people around you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you value yourself and have good self-esteem, you feel\nsecure and worthwhile. You have generally positive relationships with others\nand feel confident about yourself. You’re also open to criticism, which can\nhelp you learn and introspect making you a better version of yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nWhen self-esteem is healthy and grounded in reality, it’s hard to have too much\nof it. Boasting and feeling superior to others around you isn’t a sign of too\nmuch self-esteem. It’s more likely evidence of insecurity and low self-esteem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Impaired self-esteem negatively impacts our ability to manage difficulty and life\u2019s disappointments. All of our relationships are affected, including our relationship with ourselves. When our self-esteem is impaired, we feel insecure, compare ourselves to others, and doubt and criticize ourselves. We neither recognize our worth, nor honour and express our needs and wants. Instead, we may self-sacrifice, defer to others, or try to control them and\/or their feelings toward us to feel better about ourselves. For example, we might people-please, manipulate<\/a>, or devalue them, provoke jealousy, or restrict their association with others. Consciously or unconsciously, we devalue ourselves, including our positive skills and attributes, making us very sensitive to criticism. We may also be afraid to try new things, because we might fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The high self-esteem\nmovement began around the 1970s and it\u2019s a complete failure. High self-esteem\nis fragile and shallow and no better than having low self-esteem. This began\nwith parents encouraging their children and applauding them irrespective of\nbeing successful or not.People with fragile high self-esteem compensate for\ntheir self-doubts by engaging in exaggerated tendencies to defend, protect and\nenhance their feelings of self-worth. If you think about it sociopaths have\nhigh self-esteem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In today\u2019s world digital\nmedia has created a world of high self-esteem with likes followers and number\nof views. The modern generation is a product of this high self-esteem movement.\nThe issue is that we as a society that we think that every child is special. No\none will fail, this is evident even in our education system. The Higher\nSecondary Certificate class board examination has said that from 2020 the word\n\u2018Fail\u2019 will not be used in board examination as per Government Regulation they\nwill use Eligible for Re-examination. Like parents even our government is an\naccomplice in building false self-esteem of children of our nation. Life isn\u2019t\neasy even nature says it survival of the fittest if we cannot make the next\ngeneration aware of the challenges that face them at least we should not create\na fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n