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316. Parenting and the Narcissists of Compassion | Stephanie Davies-Arai

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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What Is Self-Esteem?

There's no such thing as self-esteem. What there is is trait neuroticism, which is proclivity to anxiety and pain. People differ in their thresholds for being anxious and hurt. If you're more sensitive, well, then you'll see threats before people who are less sensitive. But that doesn't mean that it's a fractured self-concept that's driving the negative emotion.

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