Personality Matters - The Myers-Briggs Company's blog
The easy path to happiness, love and success?
Posted 28 February 2014 by
Rob Bailey, Principal R&D Consultant at OPP
Rob Bailey, Principal R&D Consultant at OPP
"Improve your self-esteem and you’ll rapidly improve your chances of fulfilment, success and happiness in life." This statement seems to makes perfect sense. (I made it up, but it’s typical of what you’ll find on the creaking self-help shelves of any bookshop). It appears both logical and emotionally appealing, probably in part because it sounds like something that might be easily fixed. Many self-appointed gurus and counsellors have made a good living off this expectation, and some pedal a myth that low-self-esteem is at epidemic proportions. However, scratch the surface and there are a couple of issues with self-esteem.
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