So how can you increase your self-acceptance? One approach is to better monitor your inner monologue. Organizational psychologist Steven Rogelberg and his colleagues showed how helpful self-accepting self-talk can be in a study of senior executives attending a weeklong leadership program. At the end of the week, each participant wrote a letter to their future self about the lessons they learned and the changes they wanted to make. The researchers coded letters as either self-accepting (which they called “constructive”) or self-critical. The executives who used self-accepting language were more
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