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Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman

The Mating Grounds Podcast

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Self-Efficiency Is More Important Than Self-Esteem

Roy Baumeister has shown that self-esteem is not really the best way forward necessarily. Having confidence in more specific things, such as being effective at your job, is far more useful than having generalized self-esteem. Have its self-assurance, other than self-confidence, right? And you can be assured of shit because you've done it, right? That's what it is. So start really small. Work at it. If you make a mistake, no problem. Try again. Keep trying, keep trying. You get better, better, better all of a sudden. It's like, oh, I'm pretty confident at this because I've done it over and

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