If Halle Berry feels her sense of self worth was so low, how about you?  If Glamour, wealth and beauty cannot give you self-esteem, what will?

Halle Berry talks about suicide attempt - Yahoo! News

The 40-year-old actress, who won an Oscar in 2002 for her performance in the hit "Monster’s Ball," told Sunday magazine Parade that she tried to gas herself in her car over her stormy marriage to baseball star David Justice. "I was sitting in my car, and I knew the gas was coming, when I had an image of my mother finding me," she says. "She sacrificed so much for her children, and to end my life would be an incredibly selfish thing to do. It was all about a relationship. My sense of worth was so low," Berry said.

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Sometimes it is great to find posts that questions conventional wisdom. For instance, I did come across this quote, and thought it quite refreshing. ” There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.” This was uttered by Calvin Coolidge almost a hundred years ago.

Currently, you won’t find many believers on it because the conventional wisdom says that you have to dress up to impress - even if you have to go into debt for it.  Another track that Asians find when they confront people from the West is that people have been thought that the way to impress people is to act it up - be aggressive and assertive ( many times to the point of rudeness) so that you will not be perceived as weak or treated like a doormat.

The Asian way is different - you are comfortable enough with yourself that you are willing to be considerate to others, and being polite means you are confident where you stand.

Here is a great post on rethinking about politeness.  Be courteous, not merely because it will help you achieve success, but more so, because it makes you feel more deserving to be successful, and you will also be happier notwithstanding with yourself and others.


Politeness: Respect for others pays : Blog Business World

You can very easily find people who view politeness and good manners as weakness and as character flaws to be overcome. They argue that rudeness succeeds and common courtesy is a mark of failure. They view rudeness to others as a sign of their superiority as people, and a badge of their status. They couldn’t be more wrong. Politeness and common courtesy are more likely to achieve success, in business and in life, than a selfish, bullying attitude.

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Yahoo promises unlimited e-mail storage - Yahoo! News

In another reminder of technology’s quantum leaps, Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news)’s free e-mail service will provide unlimited storage space to its nearly 250 million users worldwide — a concept that seemed unfathomable just a few years ago.
With the move, Yahoo will trump its two largest rivals in free e-mail,
Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc., which currently provide 2 gigabytes
and 2.8 gigabytes of free storage, respectively.