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Reflection Paper On Self Esteem

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My overall score from the quiz was a 53. According to the results I am on the higher end of the moderate self-esteem. I agree with the assessment, under the context that self-esteem is interchangeable with the concept of self worth. Worthiness, generally speaking, is a immensely broad subject that lends itself exclusively to ones mental fiber and is either bolstered or berated by societal influence. Under those terms, I agree with some reservations. In the way I have understood the reading and reflect that upon myself, the concept of deservingness from a psychological perspective has no value. At the core, it is a complete cognitive distortion that somehow got mixed into otherwise rational models many of confused, albeit well-meaning, …show more content…

If you had no apparent part in earning these things, how can you deserve the fruits of their being? Can one, in good conscience identify the small part they appear to have played?
All one can say is you “get” something or not. Moralizing it, even in a "positive" way by saying you deserve something good or did not deserve something bad, is classic fictitious thought. And, in the case that you didn 't get it, it seems just plain delusional to say you actually deserve it, despite that reality empirically proves otherwise. I am challenged to comprehend how an emphasis on worthiness or deservingness is at all helpful.

In an effort to improve my own self esteem, I came to the conclusion not throughout the digital keystrokes of this assignment, but rather over the course of my lifetime by attempting to see through illusions of myself. What I accept to have the greatest probability of success is negating the equally self-aggrandizing belief that you won 't ever deserve something, or that once you have something, that you necessarily did not deserve it, and do not deserve to keep it. The prime exception of this is contingent upon on the rational level where one recognizes it is extremely unlikely that you 'll keep anything forever.
Also, it seems as though there is a hidden limitation in this misguided quest for deservingness, whether it 's of happiness, health, a good job, good relationships, ect. That limitation is the notion that in

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