晨讀英語美文100篇: Self-Esteem
晨讀英語美文100篇: Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is the combination of self-confidence and self-respect—the conviction that you are competent to cope with life's challenges and are worthy of happiness. Self-esteem is the way you talk to yourself about yourself. Self-esteem has two interrelated aspects; it entails a sense of personal efficacy and a sense of personal worth.It is the integrated sum of self-confidence and self-respect. It is the conviction that one is competent to live and worthy of living.
Our self-esteem and self-image are developed by how we talk to ourselves. All of us have conscious and unconscious memories of all the times we felt bad or wrong—they are part of the unavoidable scars of childhood. This is where the critical voice gets started. Everyone has a critical inner voice. People with low self-esteem simply have a more vicious and demeaning inner voice.
Psychologists say that almost every aspect of our lives—our personal happiness, success, relationships with others, achievement, creativity, dependencies—are dependent on our level of self-esteem. The more we have, the better we deal with things.
Positive self-esteem is important because when people experience it, they feel good and look good, they are effective and productive, and they respond to other people and themselves in healthy, positive, growing ways. People who have positive self-esteem know that they are lovable and capable, and they care about themselves and other people. They do not have to build themselves up by tearing other people down or by patronizing less competent people.
Our background largely determines what we will become in personality and more importantly in self-esteem. Where do feelings of worthlessness come from? Many come from our families, since more than 80% of our waking hours up to the age of eighteen are spent under their direct influence. We are who we are because of where we've been. We build our own brands of self-esteem from four ingredients: fate, the positive things life offers, the negative things life offers and our own decisions about how to respond to fate, the positives and the negatives. Neither fate nor decisions can be determined by other people in our own life. No one can change fate. We can control our thinking and therefore our decisions in life.
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自尊是自信和自重的綜合體，是一個人深信自己能應付生活的挑戰，確信自己有資格享有幸福人生。自尊就是自己如何評價自己。
自尊包括兩個相互關聯的部分：它源自對個人能力和價值的認識。說到底就是自信和自重的集合體。自尊即是應對生活挑戰的信心以及自身存在價值的認同。
我們的自尊和自我形象取決于對自我的評價。對于所有感覺糟糕或難受的時刻，我們每一個人，有意識的或無意識的，都會記得，這其中還包括童年生活留下的不可避免的傷痕。自我批判的聲音就是從這里開始產生的。每一個人的內心都會有這個自我批評的聲音，而自尊心弱的人僅僅是因為這個內心的聲音更多的是一種惡性的、自我貶低的聲音而已。
心理學家們認為，個人的幸福感、成功、與他人的關系、成就、創造力、依賴性，包括我們生活的所有方面都取決于我們不同程度的自尊。自尊意識越強，我們就能更好地處理事務。感受到這種積極的自尊是相當重要的，擁有積極的自尊使自己感覺良好，并給別人良好的印象，工作效率提高，更加卓有成效;并且總是以一種健康、積極和發展的態度回應自己或是別人。擁有積極的自尊的人清楚自己受人喜愛，清楚自己能力很強，他們既關心自己也關心別人。他們也不需要通過詆毀比人或對能力不如自己的人擺出一副神氣活現的樣子來建立自己所謂的地位。
我們的經歷在很大程度上決定了本人的個性，而其中最重要的部分是自尊。那么這種無用的自我感覺是從何而來的呢?其實大多是來自我們的家庭，應為在我們18歲之前，我們清醒著的時間80%以上都在家中度過，置身于家庭的直接影響之下。我們的出生決定了我們將會成為哪一種人。我們獨有的自尊由兩個不同的方面形成：命運，包括生活中遇到的機遇和挫折;以及我們決定如何應對命運，當然也包括機遇和挫折。在我們生活中，其他人既不能控制我們的命運，也不能改變我們的決定。沒有人可以改變命運。但是在我們的一生中，我們能控制我們的思想從而控制自己的決定。
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