do you think high self esteem or even conceit are the cures to all life's problems?

Question

I certainly think high self esteem and self love are good ways to not worry about what other people think, and you're more likely to feel like you can do anything, thus making the odds of you being successful greater. I think low self-esteem is the anidote to happiness

Answer 1

Sorry. I think the obsessive pursuit and concern over narcissistic "self-esteem" is actually a primary root of most of our culture's maladies.

At its worst extremes, the preoccupation with "high self-esteem" simply goes delusional - just witness some of the responses to blunt criticism in the American Idol tryouts for one obvious example.

No, sometimes you really don't have talent. And sometimes you really aren't qualified for that job. And sometimes you really are a louse and treated your spouse poorly because you're too selfish and self-absorbed. And yes, adultery is wrong and it doesn't make it okay just because you're trying to "find yourself."

See what I mean?

If instead we took more time to THINK OF OTHERS and the impact our actions have on the world around us, we'd all be better off. It's time to stop pasting our noses up to our mirrors and remember there are others around us.

Best to you.

Answer 2

Self esteem & self love to me doesn't mean conceit. They develop self confidence. These three things can take you along ways, both in success & happiness in what ever you want to do. Conceit could be a stumbling block because it can extort yourself image & prevent you from growing as a person. Care about other people is a great quality for one to possess. You have to deal with the people about you like it or not. People skills is another quality that help you succeed. Think about that. Well rounded person will go far.

Answer 3

Interesting you only mentioned emotions, and not logic, nor motovation, nor enviroment in your question.

High self esteem comes from accomplishment- not from teachers treating kids with soft leather gloves.

I'd rather have kids somewhat abused emotionally so it toughens them up for the real world, rather than molly-coddeling them so when they do get out in the "real world" they get the tar beaten out of them.

Example: take a lawn thats given a monthly treatment of ferterlizer and weed killers,,,,and this goes on for like 3 years. Then the monthly treatments stop- the grass dies, cause its gotten soft and lazy.

Take the wild grass that grows across the street thats never ferterlized, or watered,,,,and see how it tenatiously hangs on to life.

Answer 4

Absolutely not! The cure to life's problems is to know your true self and the only way we can know ourselves is to get to know the God who created us. He has all the answers to life's problems and He knows just who He created each of us to be.

Answer 5

ALL SERIAL KILLERS HAVE VERY HIGH SELF ESTEEM.

IT'S TRUE.

WHAT DOES THAT SAY TO YOU?

Answer 6

nope

Answer 7

FAKE IT TILL YA MAKE IT

Answer 8

no