A recent study found two things: Make a Plan and Stay Positive! Nothing has more impact on career or job search success than one's attitude.
Positive emotions seemed to help those job hunters behave more confidently or cope better with the stress of unemployment. The researchers also noted that this helped those job hunters respond more skillfully during their interviews
The name of thinking too much of ourselves is egotism. We have all run into that, at some point in our lives, so we know what it looks like. Some of us have even caught a passing glimpse of it in the mirror.
In our culture and others, we are caught to recoil from this in horror. We even have mythologies warning us against it: the story of Narcissus comes to mind. Poor guy! See http://tinyurl.com/a3a33
In order to avoid egotism, a lot of us go way overboard in the other direction. We shrink from ever declaring that we have any virtue, any Excellency, any special gifts, lest we be accused of boasting. And so we fall into that opposite pit from egotism, namely, ingratitude. We appear ungrateful for the gifts that life, the universe, God – you name it – has already given us.
So, how do we adopt the proper attitude toward our gifts? Speak of them honestly, humbly, gratefully – without sounding egotistical? Just this: the more you see your own gifts clearly, the more you must pay attention to the gifts that others have. The more sensitive you become to how unusual you are, the more you must become sensitive to how unusual those around you are. The more you pay attention to yourself, the more you must pay attention to others. The more you ponder the mystery of You, the more you must ponder the mystery of all those you encounter, every love one, every friend, every acquaintance, every stranger.
Self-esteem is an art. It is the art of balance. A balance between thinking too little of ourselves, and thinking too much of ourselves. But we can only think too much of ourselves if we lose sight of others.
Look at yourself, but equally look at them – with wonder. That is the proper attitude we all should set as our goal.
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