Standing tall
- At January 11, 2011
- By Nathan
- In Career Planning
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Viewing yourself as a person with great dignity and worth; as someone who has something to offer the world, is an important plank to set in place as you set out to build a career.
Arrogance can certainly sabotage your career-building efforts, but so can insecurity.
The post-modern worldview that you may have been submerged in implies that you – or anyone else for that matter – are not really much to get excited about at all. But it isn’t true. Human dignity is denied in many different ways nowadays. Human rights language is much in vogue, but it is now used to hammer home all sorts of agendas that end up denying core elements of what it means to be human.
When you are down and lacking confidence it is easier for all sorts of people and powers to manipulate you into fitting into their purposes and projects. Lives need to be interwoven, like the roots of a tree. But this interconnectedness can be forced in ways that do not take into account who you really are or why you have been placed on this planet at this time in the first place.
As you grow in confidence and clarify a sense of direction for your life, be careful not to assume that others are going in the same direction.
If you want the freedom to be yourself, you need to allow others to do the same.
