晨读英语美文100篇 Passage 14. Self-Esteem
 音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:01.21]Passage 14. Self-Esteem[00:05.69]Self-esteem is the combination of self-confidence and self-respect [00:12.36]—the conviction that you are competent to cope with life’s challenges [00:17.28]and are worthy of happiness. [00:19.58]Self-esteem is the way you talk to yourself about yourself. [00:23.85]Self-esteem has two interrelated aspects; [00:27.79]it entails a sense of personal efficacy and a sense of personal worth. [00:33.80]It is the integrated sum of self-confidence and self-respect. [00:38.73]It is the conviction that one is competent to live and worthy of living. [00:44.75]Our self-esteem and self-image are developed by how we talk to ourselves. [00:50.66]All of us have conscious and unconscious memories of all the times we felt bad or wrong [00:57.33]—they are part of the unavoidable scars of childhood. [01:01.71]This is where the critical voice gets started. [01:05.21]Everyone has a critical inner voice. [01:08.05]People with low self-esteem simply have a more vicious and demeaning inner voice. [01:13.96]Psychologists say that almost every aspect of our lives [01:18.78]—our personal happiness, success, relationships with others, achievement, creativity, dependencies [01:27.97]—are dependent on our level of self-esteem. [01:31.03]The more we have, the better we deal with things. [01:34.09]Positive self-esteem is important because when people experience it, [01:39.35]they feel good and look good, they are effective and productive, [01:44.05]and they respond to other people and themselves in healthy, positive, growing ways. [01:50.51]People who have positive self-esteem know that they are lovable and capable, [01:56.85]and they care about themselves and other people. [02:00.03]They do not have to build themselves up by tearing other people down [02:04.94]or by patronizing less competent people. [02:08.66]Our background largely determines what we will become in personality [02:14.03]and more importantly in self-esteem. [02:16.87]Where do feelings of worthlessness come from? [02:20.37]Many come from our families, [02:22.78]since more than 80% of our waking hours up to the age of eighteen [02:27.59]are spent under their direct influence. [02:30.55]We are who we are because of where we’ve been. [02:34.16]We build our own brands of self-esteem from four ingredients: [02:38.86]fate, the positive things life offers, the negative things life offers [02:45.54]and our own decisions about how to respond to fate, the positives and the negatives. [02:52.11]Neither fate nor decisions can be determined by other people in our own life. [02:58.34]No one can change fate. [03:00.64]We can control our thinking and therefore our decisions in life. |
