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Self-esteem, Self-compassion, Self-indifference? Erraticus Image by Oleg Sergeichik
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Self-Esteem, Self-Compassion, or Self-Indifference? Which Is Best?

August 1, 2018June 3, 2020 Melissa Dahl 0 Comments Emotional Well-being

Millennials are the generation who came of age during the self-esteem movement. The concept of self-esteem is losing it’s currency, but are self-compassion or self-indifference better frameworks for emotional health?

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“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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