The praise you enjoy most may reveal what you have struggled to give yourself credit for.

Compliments land unevenly, and the ones that stay with you usually touch something you quietly doubt. Praise about a quality you already trust passes straight through. Praise about an unsettled part gets kept, reread, returned to. The strength of your pleasure is a rough measure of the credit you have been withholding from yourself.

Think of a compliment you replayed this week and name the doubt it was answering. Then try granting yourself a smaller, plainer version of the same verdict without waiting for someone else to repeat it.