411: Ask David: What’s Self-Esteem? What’s Self-Acceptance? Do We "Need" Them?

1599.589 - 1628.916 Dr. Matt May

And so you might not, even if you're a cardiac surgeon, give CPR to someone if you have too low of self-confidence and you don't believe in your abilities. Whereas self-esteem would be the sense of admiration for oneself and respecting of oneself, not listening to our inner critic. for example, and but loving ourselves, admiring ourselves. And that can be an antidote to self-loathing.