This YouTube video ("Why Compliments Don’t Build Confidence") is a short motivational monologue arguing that self-esteem is earned internally through effort, grit, and doing difficult but right things rather than through external praise or compliments. The speaker emphasizes that compliments do not change self-worth and that personal actions and perseverance build enduring esteem.
Self esteem is earned by yourself, with yourself. Someone can tell your whole life, you're beautiful, you're gorgeous, you're so smart, and you can fear you're not. So what people have said has zero impact on your self esteem. And telling people they're great or not great does not change it. Teaching them to have grit, teaching them to push through. The way you develop esteem for yourself is by doing difficult things that you know are right. When you do something you know is right, even though it's difficult, your esteem for yourself grows. And no one can take that way. They take away money or material things. No one can take away who I've become as a man and my path, or you as a man or anyone else as a woman.
Tony Robbins Helps Her Use the Power of Her Own Mind to Manifest A Better Life
