Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this video, I want to talk about low self-esteem, and

all right, let's talk about low self-esteem in women. So I have another video that I'm going to link down below.

It's called self-esteem.

That's kind of my fundamental introductory video about what self-esteem is, and I go into a lot of depth there about the details of self-esteem is and I go into a lot of depth there

about the details of self-esteem. Here I'm not going to do that. I'm more interested in the

question of why do women tend to have more self-esteem issues than men do? To me that

was curious and I started to look into that and ask

myself questions about why this is. I want to share some of my thoughts there with

you so that you can get more understanding if you're a woman about where this is

coming from and maybe even if you're a woman about where this is coming from.

And maybe even if you're a man and you have women in your life that had this problem,

you can also understand where they're coming from.

So to get this discussion grounded, we need to talk a little bit about self-esteem. I'm just going to do a recap of the

definition of self-esteem. Self-esteem has two components to it. You've got self-efficacy

and self-respect. Self-efficacy simply means that you have the ability to think and direct your own life.

So it's how much power do you feel you have over the circumstances in your life.

That's self-efficacy and self-respect is believing that you have inherent value in yourself

and you have a right to be happy.

So when you have both of these components

working together, then you have high self-esteem.

If either one of these components is malfunctioning,

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