Self-doubt is not always wrong. Sometimes it is useful to have doubts. We cannot always be right in everything we say and do. Therefore, it is good to stop sometimes and consider what we intend to do or say. It is good to have some humility and respect for others. However, if self-doubt prevents us from expressing our opinion even when necessary or stops us from doing something meaningful, this is not good. That is when self-doubt becomes unhealthy.
Unhealthy self-doubt includes heavy inner criticism. Even small failures make us think that we are worthless in general. We begin to look at ourselves as a failure. With such an attitude, we are ready to start self-sabotaging. We think that we cannot do anything, so why bother trying at all.
At other times we have doubts about ourselves after we have begun to do something, and we start to think that we will inevitably fail. We procrastinate and delay decisions until finally, we really do fail. Then we tell ourselves again: “I knew that I would fail because I am so incapable. I am such a failure!”
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Read the whole text in the published Book 1 "Fundamental Dilemma: To Have or To Be" of books serial "Walks in the Mind".
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