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 %ACHIEVE SELF CONFIDENCE ESTEEM ENTHUSIASM CERTAIN 891019

     In an uncertain world full of paradoxes and ambiguous
situations  it  is  difficult  for  people  who  have   an
uncertain  self esteem to achieve confidence in what  they
believe.

     One   way  to  achieve full confidence  in  what  you
believe and support is to minimize the extent to which you
are  aware of evidence which suggests that you are walking
on the thin ice of a paradoxical situation where certainty
is likely to be misleading.  Thus we may face  paradoxical
situations  with the tools of repression and inhibition of
disturbing knowledge.  The more insecure we are,  the more
we will tend to use such tools,  the more we are likely to
engage  in  pretense  and collusive games of  mutual  self
deception.

     Enthusiastic  people tend to be more successful  than
people who are timid with uncertain convictions.  We  tend
to  respect and reward enthusiastic people who do not show
timidity,   hesitancy,   uncertainty,  doubt,   or  second
thoughts.  It pays to be enthusiastic.  It does not pay to
be  uncertain.  Thus we seek to achieve certainty by using
the  tools  of  repression and  inhibition  of  disturbing
knowledge when it surfaces in our own consciousness, or in
the consciousness of others.

     People  who  are  insecure in  their  uncertain  self
esteem  are prone to inhibit expressions by  others  which
bring   to   consciousness   any   evidence,     thoughts,
perceptions, insights, etc. which undermine their hard won
certainty and self confidence.  Freedom of speech,  press,
association  and assembly look unimportant to such  people
in the face of the threat of their pseudo certainty  being
undermined.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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