List three things you actually like about yourself. If it’s hard, that’s exactly why you should do it.

Most people can produce a list of their own faults in seconds and then stall completely on the other column. That gap is not modesty, it is practice. One list gets rehearsed nightly and the other almost never gets written, so of course one comes easily.

Write three things down tonight, on paper, and make them specific rather than flattering. Not that you are a good person, but that you remember names, or that you kept your word last month. Keep the paper somewhere you will find it on a bad week.