I do not have high self-esteem

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Perhaps this self-esteem

business is overrated.

A person with high self-esteem

is often one with a narcissistic

personality disorder whose

whole persona is devoted to

hiding from others his or her

secret emptiness.

Anyone with a modicum of

consciousness and a mild

dollop of integrity will be

able to enumerate a very

long list of screw-ups,

shortcomings, betrayals,

moments of cowardice and

generalized incompetence.

Anything less than a very

long list suggests either an

undeveloped awareness or

an act of great self-deception.

…If one is busy pursuing

what needs to be pursued,

is interested in something

worthy, and finding it all

getting more and more

interesting, then one has

scant time to brood on

the pseudo-issue of

self-esteem.

~ James Hollis, Creating a life: Finding your individual path (2001).