The virtues of low self esteem.
May 25, 2014 Comments Off on The virtues of low self esteem.Read moreNoting that there are “almost no findings showing that [high] self-esteem causes anything [beneficial] at all,” University of Pennsylvania psychology professor Martin Seligman laments:
“Something striking has happened to the self-esteem of American children during the era of raising our children to feel good. They have never been more depressed.”
This is no doubt partly because raised to believe that they are special and perfect and entitled to all good things, they face terrible comedowns in the real world.