Find Similar People to Improve Self Esteem

Video Transcript

"Something else that you can do to improve your self esteem is surround yourself with people that are like you. And I don't mean like you in the sense that they all have low self esteem but like you in the sense that you have things in common. Sometimes it affects our self esteem if we are surrounded with people that we don't have anything in common with. Perhaps an example might be everybody that we hang around with, they all have a PHD and we didn't graduate from high school. Well that's going to make us already feel a little bad about ourselves because they were able to achieve all these educational goals and we couldn't get out of high school. So sometimes its good to change your circle of friends or change your confidants or you know, change to be around people that you have more things in common with. Another place that we see this happen a lot is when couples get married. All of a sudden she drops all her friends and starts hanging out with all his friends that hunt and fish and do major guy things; and she likes to scrapbook and shop. So all of a sudden she doesn't really have anything in common with this group of people and she feels kind of less than because she can't really talk hunting or fishing or anything that they talk about. So its real important that you can expose yourself to all types of people but you definitely want to have people close to you that are similar to you. That can help boost your self esteem."