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To Boost Your Self-esteem, Write About Chapters of Your Life

New car, 1980s. Photo by Don Pugh/Flickr

If you are currently lacking much confidence and feel like you could benefit from an ego boost, it could be worth giving the life-chapter task a go.

View of the second Pyramid from the top of the Great Pyramid. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress

Revisiting Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for the 21st century: how do you score on the 10 traits of self-actualised people?

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Having an unanswered calling in life is worse than having no calling at all.

Newspaper Carriers (Work disgraces) by Georg Scholz. 1921. Courtesy Wikipedia

There’s also evidence that young people dehumanise older people; and that men and women alike dehumanise drunk women.

Poseidon at the Mermaid Parade, Coney Island. Photo by See-Ming Lee/Flickr

Unlike extraverts, introverts also did not show momentary gains in authenticity, and in retrospect they reported lower authenticity.

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CBT is not without the risk of unwanted adverse effects.