5/15/2023 0 Comments Atlas brene brown![]() Any perceived call-out of our weakness is experienced as an attack on our worth, so we fight hard to defend ourselves against it. It makes sense that defensive-ness occurs in areas of our lives where we have fragile self-esteem, or across several areas of our lives if the fragility is more general. With grounded confidence, we accept our imperfections and they don’t diminish our self-worth. ![]() In our work, the opposite of a fragile self-esteem is grounded confidence. Our research team member Ellen Alley explains that our self-esteem is considered fragile when our failures, mistakes, and imperfections decrease our self-worth. ![]() ![]() At its core, defensiveness is a way to protect our ego and a fragile self-esteem. ![]()
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