"What About Accurate (Not High) Self-Esteem? In our review of the literature, we focused on investigating the benefits of high self-esteem. Given that these benefits are limited at best, it may be appropriate to rethink the basic question. Perhaps it is more valuable and adaptive to understand oneself honestly and accurately, even when this means feeling bad about oneself when that is warranted by unethical, harmful, socially undesirable, or otherwise inappropriate behavior. According to this view, self-esteem could serve valuable and helpful functions (such as for managing one’s life) insofar as it is based on an accurate, rather than inflated, assessment of one’s characteristics. That would mean that accurate self-knowledge would be more useful than high self-esteem."

- Baumeister et al (2003). Benefits of Self-Esteem. 38 VOL. 4, NO. 1, Psychological Science in the Public Interest.

Sourced from : http:/www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/baumeisteretal2003.pdf towards the end of 2006 (I think). Please note how lax I get with formal convention and the way I cite references on my personal pages. I hope such scribbles of mine are sufficient and still fair for my casual purposes. If this is not the case, and anything requires clarifying, please contact me on kay.neich@clear.net.nz ... I'm quite placid, docile and don't bite much.


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(it was after writing more of the personal rants down that I was finally able to accept how bloody stupid I must have sounded, and yet moreover, feel inordinately relieved by acquiring an understanding of such a process)

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I once could no longer seem to bring myself to put nearly enough energy into what I needed to. I wanted to recover the ability to feel that I could handle situations turning out differently to that expected. The page, Regressive : what independence was not, turned out to be the one of far too many pages of thoughts that finally assured myself that I could really love life again and be prepared enough for inevitable disappointments along the way as I ploughed back in.

The page, Textured - my undoing, became more to the point on how I had been feeling.

"Integral" is another page to visit if one hasn't done so yet

link to excessively delayed research commitments still on my mind

Pretext | Platitudes?