Insights from Day 7 at CN705
- You can harm a child as much by inflating their self-esteem as deminishing it.
- If you're not doing well, you need to know it. If you're doing well, you need to acknowledge it. We must be honest.
- The goal of Christian redemption is not self-fulfillment nor self-negation, but self-transcendence - to become “transparent” to self. (seeing less of self, seeing more of Christ)
- Many consumer economies stay afloat by manipulating the low-esteem of consumers.
- The fact that something has a name doesn't mean that it exists.
- Buckminster Fuller: "I never went to university, so I never learned what cannot work."
- Can you esteem a fallen self? Can you not esteem a regenerated self?
- We have not engaged enough theologically the emotional struggles that we have everyday. We are in desperate need of a theology of the self and of emotion.
- We must incorporate the doctrine of regeneration into our concept of self-esteem.
- Dr. Martin Seligman: “There are almost no findings that self-esteem causes anything at all.” "What needs improving is not self-esteem, but our skills for dealing with the world."
- Why are so many successful, competent people plagued with chronic low self-esteem? Somewhere, behind external achievements, there must be an internal filtering device that denies the successes and hoards the failures, and then serves them up as the fruit of one’s life.
- The effect of life circumstances (successes and failures) and other external factors are NOT an adequate basis for understanding the origin or maintenance of high or low self-esteem.
- A healthy self-esteem is the acceptance of a positive and undistorted self-image.
- Mistakes are what we used to inform our improvement. Mistake is not failure.
- The generation struggles with low self-esteem, while the new generation struggle with narcissism.
- "The best thing you bring to leadership is your own transformed self." -Strengthening The Soul of Your Leadership, Ruth Haley Barton
- Feeling and practicing gratitude is the single strongest predictor of satisfaction with life.
- Many of us are just living off other people's genuine spirituality.
- Many people are languishing because of spiritual carelessness (neglecting and not taking care of our spirit).
- The number one thing to help reduce stress is silence and solitude.
- It is important to train young people to increase their capacity for silence.
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