234. How to Stop Being Defensive
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
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Self Esteem
Low self esteem can also manifest as an inability to tolerate and hear contrary feedback or critique. If you are challenged in a way that touches on a painful belief you already have about yourself, then your brain kicks in with this protective mechanism of making you feel defensive. But being receptive and curious about some one else's point view does not mean that you always have to agree with it. Other people have full human autonomy to think what they want and to share those thoughts with you when they choose to. And you have fullhuman autonomy to decide when to listen, and whether to listening, and what to decide to believe.
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