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0 pointsbahmboo5y ago0 comments

A point in the article is that self esteem as a feeling alone was supposed to fix the problem instead of doing actual work.

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throwaway2011035y ago

Yes, it was classic conflation of cause and effect. The observation was that successful people had high self-esteem. The (wrong) conclusion was that they had the high self-esteem first and that led to their achievements and success.

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