Of late, I have been talking to different people about a certain issue that is prevalent in society today. I don't really know how it must have all started, but, where it has gone now is to generate entire generations of people afflicted by it.
What am I talking about? The issue of self-esteem and confidence.
These days, a lot of people lack it greatly, and it makes it difficult in life and in society for both the people who have this terrible condition, and those that have to interact with them. Why?
Those who have it feel powerless and helpless, unable to achieve their goals and dreams, tasks ahead of them and so forth, while those who interact with them at different levels are often being influenced by the negative atmosphere or "aura" that they may carry with them, and it may affect their different relationships, be it work where a boss can not motivate their worker to successfully complete a task at hand, a friend who is in need of help or a partner that needs some support from them.
It is also a highly studied area.
In Science Direct (a database of published articles from various publications/books), if one does a search for "self esteem" you get 40 907 articles appearing. Using "confidence" gets 553 151 articles but this is misleading since confidence is also a statistical term. "Confidence self esteem" together however still gets 12 437 articles. "confidence personality" brings up 37 668 articles.
What does this actually mean? It means that it is a very big problem. Putting this into perspective, a similar search with "spray drying", my particular field of research lately, only brings up 23 000 odd results, i.e. nearly half the number of articles compared with the number published on self esteem.
Why is this so? How has society turned this way? Why do people fall down the slippery slope, and what can be done to help them back out of the holes of life that take them down those dark places?
Something to think about.
What am I talking about? The issue of self-esteem and confidence.
These days, a lot of people lack it greatly, and it makes it difficult in life and in society for both the people who have this terrible condition, and those that have to interact with them. Why?
Those who have it feel powerless and helpless, unable to achieve their goals and dreams, tasks ahead of them and so forth, while those who interact with them at different levels are often being influenced by the negative atmosphere or "aura" that they may carry with them, and it may affect their different relationships, be it work where a boss can not motivate their worker to successfully complete a task at hand, a friend who is in need of help or a partner that needs some support from them.
It is also a highly studied area.
In Science Direct (a database of published articles from various publications/books), if one does a search for "self esteem" you get 40 907 articles appearing. Using "confidence" gets 553 151 articles but this is misleading since confidence is also a statistical term. "Confidence self esteem" together however still gets 12 437 articles. "confidence personality" brings up 37 668 articles.
What does this actually mean? It means that it is a very big problem. Putting this into perspective, a similar search with "spray drying", my particular field of research lately, only brings up 23 000 odd results, i.e. nearly half the number of articles compared with the number published on self esteem.
Why is this so? How has society turned this way? Why do people fall down the slippery slope, and what can be done to help them back out of the holes of life that take them down those dark places?
Something to think about.
that's why head shrinkers exist ^_^
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hmmm, i think there are certain expectations of normalcy... and if we don't feel like we're normal, we're less able to face the rest of the world. if we're not like others, misunderstandings are more likely. prejudices are more likely. we want to avoid the negative consequences. but really, we're creating our own negative consequences.
we should embrace our abnormalities and make the world a more interesting place.