Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Pride, Self Confidence and Self Esteem

PRIDE
q     A feeling of self-respect and personal worth;
q     Satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements;
q     The trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your own set standards;
q     Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem;
q     Pride is generally competitive; in relation to others. (Ego comes in);
q     Pride + EGO [this can easily get bruised, shaken]: makes one believe one is better than everyone else;
q     Pride – EGO = Self Confidence [harder to shake]: leads to Self-esteem

SELF CONFIDENCE
q     A measure of one's belief in one's own abilities, qualities and judgement;
q     To trust and have faith in oneself;
q     An individual's belief that they can successfully perform a desired behaviour;
q     Self-confidence is ‘knowing’ that everything is okay with you and therefore you are confident in who you are.

SELF-ESTEEM
q     Self esteem is about how we rate or appraise ourselves;
q     Stems from accomplishments;
q     If we believe we are somehow less than others, we may feel the need to please, be submissive to others wishes, try to be perfect, have low moods or feel depressed, feel guilty often or we may even feel we have to try and prove that we are better than other people.

SUMMARY
q     Self esteem is about how we rate ourselves internally.
q     Self Confidence is about how much we trust ourselves and how much faith we have in ourselves and can also be about how we project ourselves into the world and how we want others to perceive us.
q     Self confidence can give a feeling of self-respect and personal worth, turning into pride.
q     When this pride is governed by selfishness, it becomes negative

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