What can you do with your body? What can your brain do? Are you intelligent, creative, funny, athletic, caring, a hard worker, a great cook, a great mother or father?Ĭonsciously placing less importance on physical attractiveness and diversifying sources of self-esteem won’t be easy. The sources from which you derive your self-esteem and self-worth must be similarly diverse. Understand that you are complex and multifaceted. For some, this harmful tendency stems from family, friends, and partners. The media will encourage you to base a disproportionate amount of your self-esteem on your and others’ positive evaluations of your external appearance. We ought to be balanced in our approach to beauty – that it is important, but not as important as the media makes it out to be. We could preach the platitude that beauty is simply unimportant, but this is wholly inconsistent with the data. Advertisers and the beauty industry depend on consumers to spend a disproportionate amount of time and money on external appearance.
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