Hi everybody, Dennis Pringer with FireSideChat, number 290.

And if you haven't seen the previous 289, I strongly recommend that you make a start.

A lot of very important stuff is said here, which is a perfect, I can't believe it.

Perfect segue to my topic. That I just said about something I do, a lot of important stuff said here.

So that was a theoretically a self-complement.

Right.

So that's perfect because that's what I wanted to open up about and then take your questions about

anything in life. Can you say that, hey, can you think that? Or does it make you conceded?

And can you say that? Or does that make you a breggart?

Right. So there are two separate subjects here. Can you think it and can you say it?

I have thought about this subject much of my life. What should you think about yourself?

That's a big topic. So very early on, in the 1970s, the idea arose that it's really important to have

self-esteem. The whole self-esteem movement started. And

though I have always believed that you should acknowledge what you're good at, that is not in any way

necessarily arrogant or bragging or unhumble or immodest, at the same time I knew from the outset.

And I wrote about it in the 1970s that it was a truly foolish and probably destructive movement

to self-esteem movement because you have to earn self-esteem. Not only that, but as I always tell

people who ask me, well, Dennis, we're having a kid soon. What's your advice on raising a child?

And I've had the same answer for decades. Make sure that you communicate to your child

that self-control is infinitely more important than self-esteem. So that's a very important point.

So self-esteem is not the same as self-respect. I think we should all aim for self-respect.

So let me begin with myself, which may be already not humble, but A, I know me and you know me.

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