And they continue to support or to practice self-esteem as indiscriminate praise, ultimately hurting more than helping.

他们依然认为,提升自尊就要不加区别地赞扬，这最终造成的伤害大于帮助。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

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。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

We tend to look at human behavior as a matter of providing rational incentives for human action while most people, in fact, are driven by a need for esteem and a desire to avoid humiliation.

通常，我们倾向于以理性地分析其动机为标准,来看待人的行为是否正确合理,而其他人则是以赢得自尊和避免羞辱为标准,来判断一个人的行为是否合理。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选