Self esteem vs self compassion ted talk

Be sure that your responses are adequately thorough and detailed. Some of the answers may just be fill-in the blank while others clearly require more detail and full sentences. It might be helpful to take notes while watching the video in order to appropriately answer the questions below. Keep in mind that the questions are asked in order of the video’s progression, making it easier to identify the answer.

Most of the answers to the questions below come directly from the video. There are a few questions which are considered “Personal Reflection” questions and are thus indicated as such in parentheses to avoid any confusion. Please make answers gender neutral and simple.

Questions

1.How self-compassionate are you? Please elaborate. (Personal Reflection)

2.At the beginning of the video, the speaker shares about learning about the “importance of including ourselves in the circle of compassion-- of treating ourselves with the same kindness, care and concern that we treat a good friend.” What do you see is the value of practicing compassion in your life? Please elaborate. (Personal Reflection)

3.How does the speaker define self-esteem?

4.According to the speaker, why did psychologists regard self-esteem as the “ultimate marker of psychological health”?

5.According to the speaker, what is the “logical impossibility” that springs from the need to chase high self-esteem in American culture?

6.According to the speaker, how does the self-esteem movement relate to narcissism and what sort of “nasty social dynamics” arise from the need to raise one’s self-esteem?

7.Describe how self-esteem is contingent and what is problematic about that?

8.How does this problem of “contingency” with self-esteem affect women and girls in our society?

9.How has your self-esteem been contingent in the past? In other words, on what have you based your self-esteem on? (Examples might include looks, validation/attention, money, work, status, the judgment of others, specific milestones/achievements, relationships, doing well on a particular task, being better than other people in certain areas, etc., etc.) (Personal Reflection)

10.According to the speaker, how is self-compassion different from self-esteem?

11.Describe the “kindness” component of self-compassion.