How to Stop Seeking Validation

Jess Carter
5 min readDec 7, 2021

We are human, we make mistakes, we are good enough!

External validation refers to the need of being accepted and appreciated by other people, whereas, in most cases, our ideas about ourselves means much less. It can be dependent on our friends or the people we are attracted to or the likes we receive on social media. The main problem with external validation is, it causes us to decide our worth based on other…

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