OPINION: How to Practice Self-Respect
“Put your oxygen mask first before helping others” is what we hear on the plane when we ignore the safety video for the millionth time. It’s tempting to help the person next to you. But when you think about it, you cannot help others if you cannot serve yourself.
Self-respect is an alignment between values and behavior. It is a stable internal quality — a state rather than a trait. To practice it, one must understand that it is a confrontation of self while building it all together in one piece...
Self-respect is an alignment between values and behavior. It is a stable internal quality — a state rather than a trait. To practice it, one must understand that it is a confrontation of self while building it all together in one piece...
