Identify four of the realities that contribute to poor self-concept

What will be an ideal response?


The realities that contribute to poor self-concept include:

1 . We live in a society in which negativity and ridicule are not only acceptable but also often encouraged.
2 . We confuse failure on a project with failure in life.
3 . We confuse being uneducated or having an untrained memory with being unintelligent, when in reality we are not spending enough time studying or practicing skills.
4 . We tend to unrealistically and unfairly compare our experience with others' experience, and conclude that we are not successful because someone else appears to have been more successful.
5 . We confuse experience with ability and intelligence.
6 . We compare our worst features to someone else's best features, rather than concentrating on developing and strengthening our own best features or abilities so that we can reach our goals in life.
7 . We set standards of perfection that are unrealistic and unreachable rather than concentrating on what we can do and have already achieved.

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