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the story you tell yourself about yourself, told by your harshest and kindest biographer at once.
means a person's overall subjective sense of their own worth, separate from what they actually achieve or deserve.
from from french estime, valuing or appraising, borrowed into 18th century philosophy before psychology in the 1890s made it a measurable trait of the self rather than just an opinion of it.
william jamesdefined it as success divided by pretensions in 1890
1980s californiafunded a task force to legislate it into schools
correlation problemhigh self esteem doesn't reliably predict actual competence