Or, less extreme though on the same faulty principle, they will be prone to what significant others say is true or right. They might be prone to cults, in extreme cases. As a result, they will tend to look elsewhere for validation of reality. Every invention I value or admire - my clothing, my computer, my running water, my car - came about because of someone’s reasoning and thinking, applied to productive action.” When you trust reasoning as such, the stage is set - psychologically - to trust your own reasoning.Ĭhildren who are not taught the value and power of reason, nor provided with the skills to reason themselves, will not develop a strong sense of self-esteem as adults, not unless they find other ways to acquire it on their own (which happens). It’s a matter of trusting reasoning as such.
It’s not only a matter of trusting your own reasoning. My reasoning process is plausible and trustworthy.” You don’t necessarily say this to yourself, but you feel it on a very deep level. If you have self-esteem, then you feel confident about knowing reality through the reasoning, thinking and sensory processes of your mind. Validation refers more to the method by which you know things, combined with your personal confidence in use of that method. Self-esteem is basically a sense that you are fundamentally fit for life and existence, and that you deserve the honestly earned fruits of your labor. Validation is closely related to self-esteem. What does it mean to validate yourself? It’s more of an emotionally held conviction than anything deliberate and conscious. Social media does not cause your lack of self-validation it can, however, serve as an excuse, delay or distraction - kind of like a drug - from the fact that you don’t validate yourself in the first place. If you lack or need validation for yourself, then you will likely depend more on social media for that validation than you otherwise would. With the possible exception of a spouse or romantic partner, nobody is as well acquainted with ourselves as … ourselves. And to know someone internally, you have to know how they think and feel, as well as how they act in countless small ways in daily life. It isn’t possible to prove that someone has lower or higher self-esteem because they participate on social media, or not. People use social media in different ways because people are different from each other. Psychology and self-esteem were relevant before social media, and they will still be relevant when and if social media eventually passes away and is replaced by some other format or technology we do not yet conceive. As a user of social media, do you consider these statements to be accurate descriptions of you, or are you not concerned or influenced by such things? ‘The attention I get from social media is important to me’, ‘I consider someone to be popular based on the amount of likes they get in social media’. “Do you crave Facebook likes?” asks Martin Graff, Ph.D., in a recent article and study.
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