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    “OWN IT” yuck..thats corporate jargon…. double yuck!

  • […] reading here: The Automatic “Yuck” She’s Giving You No […]

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    Jo March 15, 2012, 12:01 pm

    <3

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    Ethan Kaplan March 15, 2012, 12:38 pm

    What do you mean you don’t think self esteem exists? Please explain.

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    Mat March 15, 2012, 4:24 pm

    I’m not sure why you despise this term so much, “self-esteem”. I remember first learning of such a concept when I was 9 years old in the 3rd grade. Some lady came in to give a speech and share a valuable life lesson on the importance of self-esteem. She said you will have good self-esteem just by using affirmation in the morning like looking at yourself in the mirror and thinking, “Hey, good lookin’!” or “I am smart and intelligent.” And I found that I never really had problem with self-esteem because I took that lady’s advice and accepted what she said as fact.

    Now, I don’t believe in having or not having self-esteem.. rather it’s an ongoing, daily process one must actively choose to do. The term itself, I believe is very new term.. I think it’s about 50 years old.. I forget exactly (look on Wikipedia).

    To me, I have very pleasant and positive associations with this term, “self-esteem”.

    But I think I also understand that you probably hear the wrong people expressing it as something else.. Aren’t these varying meanings called “complex equivalents” or something?

    p.s. I would say the lowest point of my life was when I in the early teen years. Acne, junior high and high school, voice breaking out and squeaking, not being able to talk to hot girls (not because I couldn’t.. but because my brain’s sex circuits where just beginning to bud.. a sexual overload prevented me from being able to speak because the presence of a hot girl was soo overwhelming! It was simply a physiological process of puberty!), sleep deprivation, poor eating, poor hygiene, and the list goes on.. Did I have low self-esteem? I never thought that. I never told myself that I suck or thought negatively of myself.. I thought right but I didn’t feel too good. 😉 In fact, because I had or in fact *did* “self-esteem” I was able to overcome all that and now feel very good generally.. (though.. can never seem to get over some fatigue here and there.. I need to work out and build more muscle I think).

    But those are my thoughts and personal expierence on “self-esteem”.. I learned of it when I was in gradeschool and I feel the concept has given me wings! I wonder where you have learned of it? And from whom?

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    Mat March 15, 2012, 4:26 pm

    Excuse my misspellings (e.g. “where” instead of “were”) and left out words and other grammatical things.. Perhaps I misspelled and made mistakes because I have low self-esteem?? xD

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    Bill Sanders March 17, 2012, 11:54 pm

    Ross, I really like your stuff, but I wish you would stop saying “Does that make sense?” and “Get it?” after every statement. Please… Thanks.

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    Jo March 21, 2012, 11:00 am

    @bill sanders,
    Dude, you just gave me an idea for a social psychology study for a potential paper.

    Time to experiment, What are the effects of adding that at the end on students retention of materials across a week? a year?

    The science juices are flowing. All you did was show me the fruit to squeeze.

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    Lloyd November 15, 2013, 6:13 am

    Good video to refresh my mind

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    z23 November 18, 2013, 3:20 am

    Speaking of the thinking to acting ratio…a ladybug crawling on my screen (no kidding) just got me thinking about another ratio – strippers shaking their asses for a lot of guys to find the next customer. It doesn’t mean that the prospects that passed didn’t enjoy it! So that’s going to be my next walk-up motivator test. Because I’ve proven that I can do it, but still seem to be pushing a lot of resentment about having to.

    Just shaking ass from now on and that’s probably a horrible analogy.

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      z23 November 18, 2013, 4:50 am

      And if we want to keep the second person analogy without bringing strippers into it, I have heard women talk about “kissing a lot of frogs to find their prince”. I.e. dating may be a better deal for them in terms of getting free stuff, but it’s not necessarily a walk in the park in terms of finding a mate.

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    A M November 18, 2013, 6:09 am

    Ross, this one is a big model. I discovered years ago that if you *drop all your past* (it includes inner-identities and masks) that makes other people perceive you rad, effortlessly. That’s bottom up tranceformation?

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    Ivo November 21, 2013, 8:47 am

    once again- absolute Gold, for free. I now can say I understand what he means. Is it fully, the way RJ understands it – no. But when I look back a few years ago, when I was presented with this information for the first time, now I can see that I only thought I understood.
    — Working on the person I am more and more becoming 🙂

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