“Self Worth” is a silly concept. Your worth is determined by others, not you.

Slipthe · 2023-12-13T17:17:52+00:00

Not everyone is going to value you the same way. So there are a lot of ways where you can KNOW you are worth more than what someone is trying to devalue you to.

You can't take every person's opinion as the objective truth. And frankly YOU have to value YOURSELF more than most other people will. Because you are the constant in your own life.

Having self worth is about not getting lost in the sauce and becoming overwhelmed by opinions that do not matter.

mechanical_fish_81 · 2023-12-13T17:27:06+00:00

When people are saying this, they mean you are presenting yourself in a way that makes it look like you think lowly of yourself and its clear as day. They can literally feel the hatred oozing from you.

As someone who used to think lowly of myself, yes it does make a huge difference. No I don't walk around saying "Hey I'm worth 500k".

Its more like, I had covered myself in shit, and the smell of the shit was driving people away.

Once I removed the shit, people were no longer driven away.

Mobrowncheeks · 2023-12-13T17:21:27+00:00

I don’t exist to be valuable to you, I was not born to be valuable to you. And just because society is violently enforced opon us, doesn’t mean that this truth has changed.

Cactus2711 · 2023-12-13T17:35:36+00:00

You’re confusing self worth with perceived value. They’re different things. There are people with 500k a year jobs who still have no self worth

Demasii · 2023-12-13T17:23:59+00:00

How can someone determine the worth of someone else if they can't determine it for themselves?

AceOfSpadesGymBro3 · 2023-12-13T17:19:24+00:00

I can't think of anything more diminishing than making the opinions others have of you, especially those you do not admire, more important than your opinion of you.

But hey, you do you!

AcephalicDude · 2023-12-13T17:17:12+00:00

Do you think people are referring to money when they use the term "self-worth"?

EulenWatcher · 2023-12-13T17:29:50+00:00

Self-worth comes both internally and externally. You have to know that you have inherit value to be able to put and keep your boundaries and not accept people mistreating you. If you like yourself, you're comfortable with yourself, you have sources of validation outside of other people praising you, you're more independent and you have better chances to develop healthy relationships with others.

Self-worth isn't about trying to sell yourself, it's about having respect and kindness to yourself. You know yourself, you know your limitations and strong sides. You don't let others mistreat you, you don't constantly seek external validation, you like your own company etc.

lolthankstinder · 2023-12-13T19:15:18+00:00

Sometimes you can really admire and love someone but they still think lowly of themselves. Sometimes you could think someone is super vile and undesirable and yet they think super highly of themselves. There is definitely a notion of self-perceived worth that can vary independently of external validation and valuation.

However, I agree invalidating people’s feelings with “oh you need to love yourself more” is dumb. I think this often gets directed at men who tend to have a harder time than women getting attention and validation.

People love to individualistically or collectively blame men for everything. If a woman encounters dating issues it’s more normalized for women to generalize that men are trash to help externalize in order to avoid taking a hit to self worth. But if a man encounters dating issues, it’s considered misogynistic for him to externalize and blame women, so he just gets individualistically blamed and forced to always internalize which is more likely to lower your perception of self-worth.

KayRay1994 · 2023-12-13T17:28:59+00:00

For one thing it isn’t as literal as how you put it, and as a concept it isn’t even material, its more internal - it also isn’t even about things like intrinsic worth as a human being often brought up in christianity.

Self worth as a concept primarily means “i think i deserve better so ill work for it”, it means that the work you put in inwardly, the way you view yourself and the way you carry yourself will be projected outwards. For example, if you view yourself as worthless and irredeemable, you will be treated as such. It’s very much driven by the idea of things being self fulfilling prophecies.

Plus, so much of how others see you is driven by what you project outwards, so if you project a meek unconfident image, odds are you believe that about yourself. If you stand upright, head straight and speak your needs clearly, people will notice because that’s how you put yourself out there.

Siliconmage76 · 2023-12-13T17:33:17+00:00

Better to be delusional and think well of yourself than realistic with low self esteem and self hatred.

Safinated · 2023-12-13T17:38:18+00:00

Simps and pickmes indicate otherwise

They could have standards, but they don’t

wtknight · 2023-12-13T18:03:03+00:00

It’s not a silly concept because having self-worth will improve how one presents oneself to others, which will improve their perception of that person.

Bekiala · 2023-12-13T18:17:43+00:00

There are a lot of people out there whose bad opinion I value. I don't want to have attributes that they think are important.

BlueMountainDace · 2023-12-13T18:19:16+00:00

Having self worth isn't saying, "I'm worth $xyz".

It is knowing that you are a valid human who deserves respect and dignity and that you won't be walked on by people. Don't be dense.

Love-Is-Selfish · 2023-12-13T18:19:23+00:00

From Ayn Rand

Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living.

Only you can really judge this. Even if you use the evaluation of other reasonable people to help you determine this, you still have to judge them as reasonable yourself to value their evaluation. Like, as an extreme example, valuing the praise of your scientific ability from Einstein vs. discounting the condemnation of it by a flat earther.

It’s only by judging the evaluation of others, regardless of how they evaluate you, as worthwhile that you can try to base you self-worth on their evaluation of you.

Your argument is conflating market value, the price people are willing to pay for your productive work and the price people are willing to pay for a product, and self-worth.

thisreallyisnotok · 2023-12-13T18:46:28+00:00

I mean you can be the judge of your own worth. Whether that has any practicality, that’s another question. I think it does when it comes to self care and setting goals

Da_Famous_Anus · 2023-12-14T11:29:39+00:00

This is materialist reductionism on autism. Whether someone is worth a lot or a little according to anyone, most people's opinions are trash today anyway.

Ohmaygahh · 2023-12-14T16:45:33+00:00

This is a dangerous and incorrect line of thinking.

I remember in my 20s meeting a Taiwanese girl who came to the states to learn English. I worked at the school, she was gorgeous! She had the body of a brazilian girl, and it made no sense at all as all I ever saw were other taiwanese girls being stick thin.

I befriended her and discovered she had REALLY poor self perception/self esteem about her big butt and large tits and curly-ish hair. She shared with me how things were difficult for her as back in Taiwan, she embodied everything that was not attractive in women. Apparently Taiwanese men taste is towards super thin, small boobs, no ass, straight black hair. She had none of those things.

Lucky for me, I made her feel sexy and desirable ( because in my eyes she was ) and got to enjoy her for a few years. Self worth isn't determined by others, because then that means it's determined by the local taste, which is arbitrary and ever changing.

Self worth is knowing your worth AND having the intelligence of moving away from circles that don't appreciate your personal worth to others that do.

macone235 · 2023-12-15T01:44:00+00:00

You're self-worth is a perception of your own worth. You can be worth 100 dollars, and think you're only worth 90. You can be worth 100 and think you are worth 1000. Those are people that need an adjustment.

People who are low-value and believe that they're low value have an accurate assessment of their worth.

gilbobrah · 2024-04-22T22:22:40+00:00

I think self worth is the belief that you are worthy of basic fundamental human needs that everyone else deserves like respect, love etc

Self worth is caring for yourself and doing what’s good for you because you value yourself and see you and your life as worthy.

Holding a standard for yourself, your actions and what you want out of life, this doesn’t always have to equate to a job salary.

Howllikeawolf · 2024-06-05T16:13:24+00:00

I disagree. Self-worth is not based on monetary value. “If you find yourself constantly trying to prove your worth to someone, you have already forgotten your value.” ~Unknown

When we connect our self-worth with anything outside of ourselves, we are setting ourselves up for failure.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dont-let-others-define-your-self-worth-sweta-leena-panda

MidoriEgg · 2023-12-13T17:59:57+00:00

While the whole ‘you just need to improve your self worth’ thing can be over-emphasised and you can’t always magically improve your social status by valuing yourself more, there are negative consequences to having low self worth. Ie, a man who is catering to every whim to his girlfriend who is dismissive of him, has cheated on him multiple times etc. but he doesn’t think he’s worth any better. A woman who stays with her husband who is physically abusive to her, because she thinks that’s what she deserves.

A person who stays in a job where they are overworked, underpaid and undervalued and are bullied by their coworkers because they can’t do any better.

A college student who won’t go out and talk to their classmates or make friends, because they assume they’re boring and nobody will like them. In these situations, the people around them (girlfriend, husband, and coworkers) are telling them their value is nothing, but they could still leave those situations with improved self worth.

63daddy · 2023-12-13T18:17:29+00:00

You conflate worth and self worth. They are not the same thing.

Self worth: “: a sense of one's own value as a human” (source).

So self worth is by definition how we view ourselves, not how others view us and is different than worth.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-worth

AlmostKindaGreat · 2023-12-13T18:35:05+00:00

People can and should have a healthy self esteem and believe they have inherent value, irrespective of what others think. I believe this can be achieved and is worth striving for. Occasionally someone's upbringing will give this to someone for life. The rest of us have to work very hard for it.

That said, most do not have strong self esteem that does not require positive feedback from others to prop it up. Take away someone's success or good looks and you will often see they have no real self esteem at all.

So really the answer is different depending on whether you're asking what it ideally should be or the way it actually is in the real world.

arsynlol · 2023-12-14T04:06:33+00:00

It’s possible to value things about yourself, but nothing has an objective value, people subjectively decide to value things in other people just as they value certain things in themselves. If we desire things from society for our own self, we have to be of value to society. I would say it’s more in my self interest to be valued by others rather than being satisfied in valuing myself. But the latter is pretty important because you constantly are of value to yourself, and if you are to achieve the goal of being valued by society you have to recognize your own value first.

Trikger · 2023-12-15T08:53:52+00:00

Ha! I wish. I'm late to the party but God, does this resonate with me.

I grew up having very little social value. At one point, I decided to do a 180 and learn how to be the best version of myself. Socially, aesthetically, intellectually- I wanted people to like me.

And surprisingly, I actually did it. I went from crying at the thought of ordering at McDonalds to having around 100 "friends" and rarely having a day to myself.

The reason why I wanted to change was because, like everyone else, I didn't like myself. Frankly, I hated the person I was, and I believed that all I needed was others' validation to boost me up.

I improved everything but my self-worth. Objectively, I know I am that two thousand dollars bike.

I still hate myself.

apresonly · 2023-12-13T17:40:44+00:00

It's not healthy to have low self-worth. Therefore it's not a good idea to rely on others for self-worth. Pretty simple.

bluestjuice · 2023-12-13T18:39:23+00:00

Economic value is the least meaningful way to think about a person.

Humans have inherent worthiness and dignity.

-Shes-A-Carnival · 2023-12-13T18:40:02+00:00

this post makes no sense. "self" worth is how much you value YOURSELF and your dignity wants needs and boundaries. it cannot come from someone else

TheRedPillRipper · 2023-12-13T18:41:24+00:00

it’s determined by how much value you

The primary reason why one’s Self Worth, and Self Confidence is internally driven, is because others often have a poor sense of what is valuable. Take The Wright Brothers. Or Henry Ford. Imagine telling the world; “We’re going to fly like birds.” Or “We will be faster than horses.” Think that others would have valued them? When making these claims?

The difference is most see the world as it is. Others see the world as it could be.

Godspeed and good luck!

Flightlessbirbz · 2023-12-13T19:46:45+00:00

Yes and no. Yes, our concept of self-worth largely comes from a collective of how other people perceive us. But if our self-worth constantly depends on how individuals react to us and we have no steady, internal sense of worth, we will have constant turmoil. We have to decide whose opinions actually matter to us and whose do not. Because some people simply will not like you for their own reasons, and some people will not value anyone except themselves, and that doesn’t diminish your worth.

There is also something to be said about how we value ourselves affecting how others value us. No, you can’t walk into a company and say “I’m worth 500k” when you’re not. But if you genuinely think you deserve a raise you have a better chance of getting it if you ask than if you sit around and think “well if I they thought I was worth more, they’d give me a raise.”

MistyMaisel · 2023-12-13T19:56:28+00:00

Self-worth is what it sounds like. It's what you, yourself, think you are worth. You can decide to base that somewhat or entirely on what others think of you or not.

Think of the classic tormented mind who is beloved by all, accomplished, respected, and still tormented by feelings of not being good enough, insecure, thinks everyone hates them, you can say this is simply a sick mind, but this describes the vast majority of humans. Why? Because they have low self-worth. They do not perceive themselves well so it doesn't matter what the whole rest of the room thinks or says.

Let's turn instead to the classic example of those who wear the cloak of righteousness. Think, the beloved politician who secretly plots the unraveling of those who love them and put them up there or the pedtophile priest who all think is quite wonderful, while the truth is far darker. These maggots are not great (and many know it), but because everyone tells them how great they are and because they've chosen to base their self-worth on that, they may get by feeling ok inside.

What can we learn from the first example? That what others think of us does not determine our self-worth, only we can. We can choose to include data from others if we wish, but doing so in no way assures a stable or healthy sense of self-worth.

What can we learn from the second example? That what others determine of us may shape our environment, but not our reality or the truth. The politician is not of high worth nor is the priest. Both are monsters, the fact those around them cannot recognize this is neither here nor there on what is true.

In turn, the person who believes from high self-worth that they are worth 500k, may indeed be correct, their environment just hasn't caught up with reality yet. It may also never catch up, after all, I can think of many wonderful people who are worth 500k that will likely never receive that amount, whether they are a detective preventing human trafficking or say a nurse working in Africa for pennies on the dollar keeping women, children, and men alive with their skills. The unsung hero is a common phenomena.

Also, I have indeed sold a shitty bike for way more than it was worth. It's called marketing and finding the right customer. Their reality and the reality of everyone else who saw that bike were quite different.

Mentathiel · 2023-12-13T21:24:39+00:00

If you're trying to sell yourself to others, then the price is obviously not set by you. Self-worth is not about other people liking you. It's about how you feel when they don't like you. People who are confident and have high self-worth don't get overly stressed and anxious at the thought of being disliked. They like themselves and care about themselves irrespective of other's opinions. That doesn't mean they never do self-improvement or take in outside feedback, just that they're not hurt at a fundamental level by it. It's kind of hard to describe. It means you feel like you deserve to set your boundaries, express your preferences, be treated with respect, that you're ready to exit situations where this is not the case. It means you love yourself, that you want to stay alive, that you try your best to take care of your body and your psyche. It means you have many relationships in your life and don't rely on a single person in a codependent way, feeling like you'd be nothing without them. These are all proxies and not what self-worth is, it's basically a feeling & a set of beliefs about yourself.

What people get confused by is sort of... The belief of "I deserve love and compassion" is a part of having high self-worth. But it's not the same as believing that you're entitled to love and compassion from others. People make choices about their relationships with you, but that doesn't mean that you're delusional to believe that you deserve love. For example, all children deserve to grow up with healthy happy parents who take good care of them and prepare them for adulthood. That doesn't mean that that's what will happen to them, but if their parents happen to be crappy that doesn't mean they didn't deserve good parents.

I believe that all humans at their core deserve love and compassion. It doesn't mean that I have the bandwidth or the mental stability to offer it to everybody. Maybe somebody takes really bad actions, ignores my boundaries, and harms me in general. Maybe we just don't click and I don't have the time for that when I could be spending it with my family and friends. Either way, I am denying them my love not because they don't deserve it, but because I personally have other priorities for myself. It's not a condemnation, it's simply a limitation of mine.

If nobody will value you in any way, obviously you need to make some improvements or do something about that so you could have a healthy level of human contact. But that doesn't mean you deserve to suffer with it until you can prove yourself, it just means that you will have to suffer until you can prove yourself. Because of practical reasons, because you're asking other human beings with agency and their own wants and needs and boundaries to give you something.

It's probably a quasi-religious concept Idk. It just means valuing something fundamental at the core of your being and acting with due respect towards that thing. Like people used to think of souls or sanctity of human life. There is something about every human being that I believe has value irrespective of how we end up interacting with them or how much socioeconomic capital they have.

That's how I understand it at least.

Aromatic_Ad5473 · 2023-12-13T21:25:32+00:00

I don’t think you know what “self-worth” means. Self-worth is not a dollar value. It’s not numerical.

Self-worth is the internal sense of being good enough and worthy of love and belonging from others.

la_selena · 2023-12-13T21:27:05+00:00

if you always depend on other people for feelings of worth and validation youll always never truly be happy with yourself

if you always need others approval to feel worth, then you arent truly confident man

when we women say we like a confident man we dont mean a man who needs validation from others. a truly confident man is someone who is sure of himself, and doesnt need others ok to feel worthy

JCSledge · 2023-12-13T22:54:05+00:00

You’re conflating two different issues into one. Self worth is how one values themselves, you’re talking about external validation of worth in your examples.

Think_Reporter_8179 · 2023-12-13T23:58:28+00:00

Maybe walking into a company and saying "I'm worth $500k" isn't an accurate description of worth because it's based on a dollar value.

What is a person worth from a "barter/trade" situation? What can you bring to the table that nobody else can, that might not have a high dollar worth but is valuable in other ways, such as making someone else happy?

I can fuck your wife better than you can, so I'm worth more. She just doesn't know it and neither do you. But I guarantee I can, so am I worth more? Objectively, I can fuck her better than you, but you can provide other things to her, so she stays with you. Why?

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ComfortableJeans · 2023-12-13T17:38:57+00:00

You're right and wrong.

Worth is subjective. Others will decide what you're worth to them, and you will have your own worth to yourself, though you may have little control over that.

Also, different people will value you differently. A dirty, old rope isn't worth anything to most people. But to a drowning man, it's the most important thing in the world.

I wouldn't be so childish as to suggest that the only persons value that matters is your own, as the way others value you will have a HUGE impact on your life, to the extent where it may not be a life worth living to a lot of people. But your value is not one static value across the board.

Typical_Samaritan · 2023-12-13T17:58:41+00:00

Being confident is more closely related to self-esteem and not self-worth. But, the single and presumably best example you provide isn't even an example of what people mean when we normatively use the phrase "self-worth".

Self-worth defines our internalized sense of personhood in relation to the world around us. it informs how we present, how we allow others to present towards and therefore treat us and helps to maintain the stability of our presentation across interpersonal experiences--and not transactions. It's a non-monetary valuation, dude.

So, certainly I could not demand an employer pay me a specific wage based on my own evaluation. But, my self-worth would say something about my willingness to allow them to make me the butt of a joke, or to be disrespected or treated in ways that I don't want to be treated, or to consistently fail to enforce boundaries I claim to have.

purplish_possum · 2023-12-13T19:06:42+00:00

Lots of people don't understand how markets work.

Fun_Push7168 · 2023-12-13T19:10:21+00:00

Your assessment of self worth is affected by others views it's not solely determined by it.

It's often relative. " Don't sell yourself short" comes to mind.

So it can be like selling something. You want be at the high end of a realistic price range. Some people will think it's not worth as much , others will.

There is also somewhat of a self fulfilling effect. If you don't think you're worth much, you can be bought for little and effectively become not worth much. It works somewhat the other way around too.

You're just off the charts with your examples but they're correct. Doesn't matter what you think your self worth is if it's way out of the realistic range it will not be practically useful.

Mr_Chad_Thunderpenis · 2023-12-13T19:10:45+00:00

That's kind of a fact I guess. Your value in the mating market is determined by the women who are willing to engage with you. Your value in the job market is determined by what employers are willing to offer and pay you. Same thing applies to almost everything.

AnonymousAgapeLove · 2023-12-13T19:18:26+00:00

OP, SELF WORTH MEANS your worth to yourSELF. Outside influences can affect the judgement for sure.

Aromatic_File_5256 · 2023-12-13T19:25:27+00:00

Your worth to society and self worth are two independent things that exist in parallel.

WilliamWyattD · 2023-12-13T19:56:24+00:00

Not quite. Like identity, worth is negotiated between you and your community. Both your own opinion and theirs generally matter, but the weightings are very contextual.

SandBrilliant2675 · 2023-12-13T23:56:34+00:00

I do not think your financial worth comparison really holds weight here, if you’re specifically walking into a company saying I’m worth 500k you better bring some data to support that. Previous pay stubs, letters of recommendation, a portfolio of assets and liabilities, whatever. That kind of data could prove you are in fact worth $500k.

But “self-worth” is “the internal sense of being good enough and worthy of love and belonging from others. Self-worth is often confused with self-esteem, which relies on external factors such as successes and achievements to define worth and can often be inconsistent leading to someone struggling with feeling worthy.”

Yes everything is lens of societal worth because, hey, we live in a society, but you can intrinsically feel good about yourself by doing things that make you feel good, especially when you tie your worth to you emotions and physical health.

You can feel good after exercising or eating well. You can feel good after practicing self care. You can feel good when you make your bed or clean and decorate your space towards your taste, even if you’re not having anyone over.

Specifically regarding exercise: the claim that some people make that the only reason people exercise is to look good for other people is flawed. Many people exercise for the health benefits. Longer life, lower blood pressure and cholesterol, specifically building muscle provides many benefits such mobility, protection, stress relief through hormone and neurotransmitters, which are all clearly beyond just physical appearance.

Self care lens: Putting on a face mask or getting your hair cut, for example, or going on a walk, drinking water, or making a nice meal are all things that don’t have to extrinsically motivated.

sexual lens: Pleasuring yourself and feeling sensual in your own space, can boost your self worth if feeling sensual is important to you.

Bottom line is: There are lots of things you can do to feel good about yourself and feel good in within yourself that have nothing to do with societies view of you specifically.

Ppdebatesomental · 2023-12-14T00:34:42+00:00

Others determine your worth to them. You determine how you value yourself.

You can yell at people “I have value “ till you are blue in the face. It won’t change their mind. You can however decide that you are worth more than being treated poorly, and work to find people who agree with you.

Note though, this doesn’t necessarily occur in a vacuum. If you have a boss that doesn’t value you, maybe he’s a jerk, maybe your job performance isn’t that great. People need to look at themselves with some objectivity.

Your worth isn’t determined by you

Your worth to others can be determined by you if you work on being worthy.

More-Tax-62 · 2023-12-14T03:38:17+00:00

Are you prescribing that one shouldn't aspire to have high self worth? Self worth does not mean Delusion.

It's about having a high estimate of yourself such that: - you're able to enforce boundaries on others - you don't engage in people pleasing behaviors - you don't talk badly about yourself - you don't self sabotage - more likely to get shit done through self actualization - less sensitive to criticism, good or bad

Not to mention that having low self worth correlates with Depression and anxiety.

Edit: who do you think self-deletes more? People with high or low self worth?

Majestic_Pitch_1803 · 2023-12-14T03:45:36+00:00

Others treat you and view only as highly you as you view and treat yourself. I know it might seem like the reverse, but it isn’t.

Since I started to gain confidence, my gains in the gym skyrocketed, I got a job I never thought I could be good at, people want to talk to me and compliment my looks + personality. The confidence came first, only then could I grow into the aforementioned.

Vainistopheles · 2023-12-14T07:26:01+00:00

I find it noteworthy that both of your examples are monetary. That presupposes that our economic system is a good metric of what's valuable.

But I'm sure you can think of valuable things no one will pay you a dime for.

mvnnyvevwofrb · 2023-12-14T08:52:03+00:00

You confused self-worth with economic worth. That's a completely different thing. The rest of the nonsense you wrote follows from that.

boom-wham-slam · 2023-12-14T09:02:26+00:00

Yes and no. It's your confidence. You should be confident that you're worth something.

But I agree so many people walk around thinking they are worth 1mil when they are in the bargain bin.

19whale96 · 2023-12-14T09:15:13+00:00

Fuck, this is a good post op. I don't think self worth is fake but I'm starting to think it can't exist in relation to other people without becoming something other than self worth. I can see it as looking at yourself in abstract, as if you were another person, and making a judgment on that based on your own opinions and preferences.

obviousredflag · 2023-12-14T09:48:32+00:00

You have a value that is determined by others, and you have the value you see yourself having. They do not necessarily be the same. I had low self worth and needed to hear it for years by my social circle, that i am a great guy, before my self worth adjusted to how my surroundings saw me. How others view me only partially determines my experience in the world. How i view myself also determines what i even do, how i present myself and what i think i can do.

But it's not even optimal to have inside valuation match the outside valuation. It's beneficial to slightly overvalue yourself, regarding everything. This affects how others see you and by extension, how you see yourself: a positive feedback loop until you reach the point where you consistently can't provide the value you or others see you for, and you need to down-correct your value or suffer consequences.

Most people think they are above average in attractiveness. This can be seen, i think, as a result of their self-worth being higher than their actual outside-ascribed value. It's healthy to think one is more attractive than one actually is. It helps in securing higher value partners. What one should take away from the graphs below is probably not that men overrate themselves more than women, but more that, on average, people like to think of themselves as above average, regardless of where they really are on the spectrum.

The people who rated themselves as a 0 attractiveness, are most likely not this unatttractive and they are not outside-valued like that by others. It's their low self-worth that makes them answer "I am a 0". And it's not helping them at all. The correct advice would be: work on your self-worth.

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Dacnis · 2024-02-21T06:59:08+00:00

Well said, it's a straight up biological and social fact. The concept of self worth is meaningless.

Title	“Self Worth” is a silly concept. Your worth is determined by others, not you.
Author	HTML_Novice
Upvotes	37
Comments	324
Date	December 13, 2023 5:10 PM UTC (2 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/PurplePillDebate
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/PurplePillDebate/comments/18hlng9/self_worth_is_a_silly_concept_your_worth_is/
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