self awareness and self esteem

PERSONAL GROWTHPERSONAL GROWTH SELF-AWARENESSSELF-AWARENESS SELF-ESTEEMSELF-ESTEEM

What is self-awareness?

• Self-Awareness Theory states that when we focus our attention on ourselves, we evaluate and compare our current behavior to our internal standards and values.

• Recognition

Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence Model (2002)

• Self-Awareness:The core of Emotional Intelligence is self-awareness. Self-awareness is comprised of three competencies; 

• emotional self-awareness, where you are able to read and understand your emotions as well as recognise their impact on work performance and relationships; 

• accurate self-assessment, where you are able to give a realistic evaluation of your strengths and limitations; 

• self-confidence, where you have a positive and strong sense of one’s self-worth. 

• The starting point and key in these areas is the ability to be critically self-reflective.

What is Self Esteem ?

• Self esteem is your opinion of yourself.

• High self esteem is a good opinion of yourself and low self esteem is a bad opinion of yourself.

Types of Self Esteem

• Higher one

• Lower one

3 Common faces of Low Self Esteem

• Imposter

• Rebel

• Loser

• Maslow noted two versions of esteem needs

• lower one

• Higher one

( Note that this is the “higher” form because, unlike the respect of others, once you have self-respect, it’s a lot harder to lose! )

By: Swathi S