Another important trait was self-esteem: Does the person feel good about himself or herself?

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Then when I am talking to young people about Columbine they almost always understand it in the context of school bullying in the context of parental neglect in the context of kids' lack of self-esteem and dignity.

当我和人们讨论科罗拉多可伦拜高中枪杀案时,他们几乎都是这样理解的,无非是校园暴力,缺乏父母管教,以及孩子们缺少自尊自立。

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The question is "how can I improve my self-esteem, my healthy self-esteem, ? not narcissism of course?

问题是“我如何能提高我的自尊，我健康的自尊，而当然不是自恋？

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In a normal, productive, healthy, happy environment, people don't scream at you about how bad you're doing but they compliment how good you are and that could lead to an inflated self-esteem on the part of people in certain domains.

在一个正常，高效，健康快乐的环境里，人们不会大声跟你说你做得有多差,但他们会称赞你做得很好,因而导致人们在某些方面,自我评价膨胀。

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I would recite, whatever, the Articles of Confederation I would rise on my hind legs, quaking in my boots, and I would begin until I made a mistake, whereupon I would be castigated, berated, totally stripped of self-esteem by this monster who would that inflict the same pain on somebody else.

我会背，比如说，联邦条例,我会抬起我的后腿，它在靴子里颤抖，然后开始背，直到犯错，于是，我就会被批评严惩，自尊完全被这个怪物践踏了,他对其他人也会如此加注痛苦。

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Because it's not just information that determines our wellbeing, our success, our self-esteem, our motivational level, the relationship and the quality of our relationships.

因为信息无法决定我们的幸福感，我们的成功，自尊，动机水平，两性关系及其质量。

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But the self-esteem movement mostly says praise people,praise children all the time.

但关于提升自尊有个常见的说法,要经常赞美别人和孩子。

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Cos many people sit here during the lectures on self-esteem, for example, or when we talk explicitly about happiness, ?" they say, "Wait. Do I have self-esteem?"-- Thinking to themselves.

因为很多人坐在这听有关自尊的讲座时，比如，或者当我们明确地讨论幸福时，他们说，“等等，我的自尊心强吗-,他们自己想到。

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