We fear the judgments of others, even though their judgments about us are rarely valid or significant.

Tying your self-worth to everyone else’s opinions gives you a flawed sense of reality because people judge us based on a pool of influences in their own lives that have absolutely nothing to do w...

It should not be a surprise that most people do not agree with each other.

• We often judge others due to lack of context, or lack of information about what is really happening. 
• Things begin to make sense given enough information.
• Everyone has had a diff...

We are judged by what we can do for others. For instance, saving children or removing a tumor.  Social reward is just a network effect. Reward comes down mostly to the number of people you impact.

However, we judge ourselves differently. We judge ourselves by our thought...