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Understanding Self-Worth: A Conversation with Parveen Boyal

It’s 7:30 am, and you’ve just woken up and rolled over. Sleep in your eyes, throwing a hand at your phone to silence its alarm. To silence it, you open your phone, and it lights up. Several notifications start to roll in, a few from Instagram or Facebook Messenger, as usual. You peek at Instagram – oh, look! Someone’s getting married, started a new job, and is travelling the world. Those likes you received just a moment ago no longer feel so good or so pretty.

From the minute you wake up to when you go to bed, there’s a dial of experiences, turning us towards or away from our relative measurement of success, productivity, beauty, and intelligence. Essentially, our measurement of self-worth…

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