Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

Today I want to talk about self-esteem.

That was a really long pause.

I was just thinking.

The previous podcast, we just did.

We.

I.

Who am I now?

Jeez.

Was on self-confidence and self-ethicacy.

So this is kind of like part two to that podcast.

So if we think of self-ethicacy as your belief in your capability in a given situation

or your competence in a given task or your competence in a given task.

Self-esteem is different. So self-esteem is a more global view of your self-worth. So self-efficacy

might be, I am very good at running. And self-esteemesteem might be I am generally a good person.

I had not plugged in my microphone.

A simple definition of self-esteem is an individual's subjective evaluation of their worth.

And to put into context how important this is, Carl Rogers, who was a

humanistic psychologist, theorized that the origin of many people's problems is that they,

I mean, this is quite extreme, but that they despise themselves and consider themselves

worthless and incapable of being loved, which is really sad.

Anyway, this is why Rogers believed in the importance of giving unconditional acceptance to a

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