You have now acquired a substantial number of skills to build self-esteem. Regardless of how secure one’s self-esteem, there is still the possibility that it can be “blown away” by a salient “failure” or unfortunate event. So it is imperative to develop skills for riding out “failures”—for keeping self-esteem strong and secure during the storms of life that will inevitably come. In some ways, the flop inoculation exercise below is a review of the skills you’ve learned. Before we start, let’s first preassess what you understand “failure” to be.
