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Workplace Validation and Self-Esteem

For many people, work can become a major source of validation. A compliment from your manager, praise for a job well done, a promotion, or simply being seen as the person who can always deliver can feel good. But when our sense of worth becomes closely tied to external validation, what happens when the recognition stops?

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