Treat Yourself With Kindness for Success A growing body of research, including new studies by Berkeley’s Juliana Breines and Serena Chen, suggests that treating yourself with kindness and having self-compassion, rather than building self-esteem , may be the key to being successful in life. S elf-compassion leads to higher levels of personal well-being, optimism and happiness, and to less anxiety and depression. Self-compassion is being willing to look at your own mistakes and shortcomings with kindness and understanding. Then you accept that to be human is to make mistakes sometimes. When you have problems and you are self-compassionate, you neither judge yourself harshly, nor feel the need to defend yourself loudly by talking about how good you are. You don't need to shout loud to protect your ego. People who experience self-compassion are more likely to see their weaknesses as something they can work on. Self-compassion increases your motivation to improve s
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