8/ Robinson Crusoe on an island cannot have "self esteem" issues. He only has two standards: survival in external world, enjoyment in head
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9/ Aiming for high self-esteem is like fat supply chains. You insure against uncertainty in other-esteem through internal inventory.
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10/ Like fat supply chains, self-esteem an artifact of industrial age. Go lean instead. Zero inventory. NO self-esteem per 3/ and 4/
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11/ This means externalizing your self-esteem as other-esteem into quality relationships, not insuring against validation volatility
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12/ Alternate lens on self-esteem is attachment theory applied to paternalistic industrial age organizations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory …
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13/ Industrial age humans needed self-esteem because their attachment to clumsy bureaucratic parents was insecure, like kids of bad parents
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14/ You can do better now, since you can choose relationships much more freely. Your attachment to society can be a lot more secure today.
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15/ And like securely attached children, that allows you to play freely, which is the heart of creative work.
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16/ And there you have it. Low self-esteem epidemic solved. Next week, I'll solve obesity epidemic.
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@vgr Love this. Especially since you seem to be unaware of Ayn Rand's contribution to the cult of self-esteem http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/self-esteem.html …2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
@riemannzeta Okay, that is hilariously juvenile.
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