From The Daily Dialogue
From The Daily Dialogue
Broadcast of 3/16/98
Subject: [DailyDialogue #75] Self-Esteem & Dialogue
"The question 'What am I worth?' is far more than a financial question, and answering it demands far more than a cursory look at what the market will bear or what the competition is charging." -- Greg Levoy, Callings
My self-esteem benefits from dialogue. Dialogue enhances understanding, understanding enhances differentiation, differentiation enhances self-esteem. Too much of a leap? I'll attempt to explain.
As I understand you better, I become more knowledgable of and appreciative to the many ways that you are different from me. I become increasingly differentiated from you. We are more clearly different and neither of us is an extension of the other.
As I grow in my knowledge of you as different from me, my esteem for you will also change. It will tend to increase if I value your differences and decrease if I devalue your differences. The dialogue process is structured in a way that makes it difficult for me to devalue your differences. Near the end of the dialogue, I'm called upon to acknowledge how both your thinking and your feelings make sense to me. I'm encouraged by this step to increase my understanding and esteem for you.
My self-esteem will grow in step with my esteem for you.
Experiment: Dialogue about your self-esteem in the light of current events in your life.
Affirmation: I'm grateful that we are different.
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