SELF - RESPECT

What is self-respect?

The best definition of self-respect is “how good you feel about yourself.” It is an emotional component of the self-concept and represents the real core of human personality. Your self-image may be high or low and may be consistent or inconsistent with reality. But your self-respect is always true to the image you hold in your mind, to the person you keep telling about yourself. The world will look to you for your own rating. It will stamp its value you give to yourself.

Dr. Maltz writing in his book Psycho-cybernetics says, “Most of the people who have lost their confidence and self- respect become normal, well adjusted after corrective surgery because due to their physical abnormality they have developed inferiority complexes.” His discoveries demonstrate that the key to changing personalities and performance is not in changing physical face. It lies in changing the person's mental face, the inner mirror or the way he sees himself. So everyone, from prisoners to professionals to paupers, can benefit from increasing one’s self-esteem.