The Importance of Developing a Sense of Self

Cara Rogers' theory that when your sense of value is about how other people perceive you, it can be hard to have a sense of self. Our conditions for success in the West are getting narrower and narrower so I wonder what that does if that becomes your model of what it means to be a worthwhile person. How many young people are going to be compelled to abandon something that feels authentic to them because it doesn't fit what they're being sold is this very narrow set of conditions for success?