...abandoned the attempt to ' carry that line,' as the merchants say, of self at all. With no attempt there can be no failure ; with no failure no humiliation....denominator and the numerator our success : thus, Self -esteem =p — 7 = • Such a fraction may be increased as well by diminishing the denominator...

...abandoned the attempt to ' carry that line,' as the merchants say, of self at all. With no attempt there can be no failure ; with no failure no humiliation....denominator and the numerator our success : thus, Self -esteem =p-^-7— — • Such a fraction may be increased as well by diminishing the denominator...

...abandoned the attempt to ' curry that line,' as the merchants say, of self at all. With no attempt there can be no failure ; with no failure no humiliation....self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we hwk ourselves to be and do. It is determined by the ratio of our actualities to our supposed potentialities...

...Psychology", expresses it as follows : Self-esteem = p Success' .Pretensions. That is, our self-esteem is determined by the ratio of our actualities to our supposed potentialities. And he suggests that some Bostonians "would be happier men and women to-day if they could once for...

...abandoned the attempt to ' carry that line ', as the merchants say, of self at all. With no attempt there can be no failure ; with no failure no humiliation....depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do "-1 In those individuals who achieve the highest levels of stability of character and of moral development,...

...abandoned the attempt to "carry that line," as the merchants say, of self at all. With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure, no humiliation....pretensions are the denominator, and the numerator of our success : thus, "") Success Self-esteem ? J Pretensions Such a fraction may be increased as...

...dependent directly upon the relation of one's attempts to one's success. He says, "So our self -feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves...determined by the ratio of our actualities to our supposed potentialies ; a fraction of which our pretensions are the denominator and the numerator our success:...

...result of a wide divergence between these: our self-feeling . . . depends entirely on what we hack ourselves to be and do. It is determined by the ratio...are the denominator and the numerator our success. Such a fraction may be increased as well by diminishing the denominator as by increasing the numerator....

...way to guide their actions and steady their sense of who they are and want to be. As he explained, "Our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on...of our actualities to our supposed potentialities" ([1890] 1981, p. 296).2 When fans talk about wanting to play guitar like Springsteen, they are not...

...chosen expertise because I really want to be an actor. As James put it so well: "With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation....depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do."1 James then goes on to conceptualize these ideas in an equation:2 Self-esteem = Success/Aspiration...