Everyone loves positive feedback. It feels good and often confirms your own assessment of your performance. You think you’ve done good job and now you know. When we were in school, we could use grades or the teachers’ comments as benchmarks for our performance. But there are times, in our work or personal life, where there is no feedback. For example, you may have given a presentation at work and there are no comments from your boss and colleagues either positive or negative. Or, you teach a yoga class, and no students say “Great class” or “Thank you.” SO, the question becomes how do you know how you did?
When we become dependent on external feedback for self-esteem, we can develop what’s known as a contingent self-worth. Contingent self worth is a positive sense of self that exists only with the praise and attention of others. Without that praise and attention, there is low self-esteem.
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