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It’s often said that bullies and narcissists have low self-esteem. But [research](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8721.00053?casa_token=125WwpKqfXYAAAAA:xrVaU0pmX5v71guDiJzw4e1km766wnXStlbnl1yaaapf2cFh7gjfmnd6b4ZXGQ4UoWenpraMoloa) paints a different picture: Narcissists actually have high but *unstable* self-esteem. They crave status and approval and become hostile when their fragile egos are threatened—when they’re insulted, rejected, or shamed. By appealing to their desire to be admired, you can counteract their knee-jerk tendency to reject a difference of opinion as criticism.
Persuading the Unpersuadable
Harvard Business Review
When you give yourself credit every time you do something right, though, you can more easily see such slips as momentary mistakes, not earthshaking events, and head off a sense of hopelessness.
The Beck Diet Solution
Judith S. Beck PhD
Our responsibility is not to chaplain the state but to call the state to repentance and to surrender to the King who is Lord.
A Farewell to Mars
Brian Zahnd
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