Responsibility Rebellion: An Unconventional Approach to Personal Empowerment

by Kain Ramsay

Naturally, self-esteem is highly dependent upon the quality of things you produce, from your career to your children, physique, and talents. However, the danger of drawing validation from external factors is that your esteem becomes determined by fluxing elements. Chasing self-esteem, therefore, becomes an exhausting and unsustainable way of living. It seems like for every success that boosts your confidence, there are twenty failures solidly knocking you back down to rock bottom. Then, when you start conceiving imperfections, failures, and rejections as markers of who you are, your self-esteem takes a harsh battering, and the more you spend days of your life comparing yourself to others, the more your self-esteem plummets. But the reason you focus so much on improving your self-esteem is that your self-esteem is on the frontline; when something goes wrong, it’s the thing that gets impacted first, usually with a critical blow.