It seems to be a bad idea to me to deliberately inflate the self esteem of children. If they are smart they notice the gaslighting, if they are not they develop impostor syndrome. Both undermines their ability to properly judge and regulate their relationship to the world.
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Replying to @Plinz
Children (and adults) should be taught that self-worth should be intrinsic and internally built, arrived at by self-examination and personal effort, not externally validated/dependent, and that their limits in life are (almost) entirely self-imposed.
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Replying to @Sams_Antics
I think that honest feedback from others is incredibly important, and that it should be given and understood independently from judgements of esteem, which is a different category.
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Replying to @Plinz
Agreed. Assessment of current level of skill and ability in a domain often needs an external component, but should never be equated/conflated with self-worth/esteem.
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Replying to @Sams_Antics @Plinz
Children are not antennas They have their own gears running Without supportive input loudest inner monologue dominates THAT causes both impostor syndrome and hubris Support isn't gaslighting Gaslighting is abusing someone's inner calculus To avoid responsibility For your actions
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Also self examination, etc is a bunch of Western Protestant work shame ethic nonsense I swear Descartes set us back 1000 years with his mind/body duality I mean he was sick all the time and stuck isolated He saw his body as a curse
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It was not Descartes fault that a certain interpretation of his ideas caught on. Christian cult technology sparked a broad and common dualist intuition that needed an intellectual protagonist. Ironically, Descartes was personally driven by opposition to Christian metaphysics.
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