Identifying your current mindset

- Now we've been talking about rights.…Whether you stand up for your own rights or not…really depends on whether you believe…that you deserve to be able to stand up for your rights,…are you okay about yourself.…And similarly, whether you stand up for…other people's rights and respect their views…depends on whether you believe that they are ok enough…to deserve to have those rights.…This idea of being okay is essential…to the subject of assertiveness.…The word "okay" is quite an important word to define.…We're not talking about believing that you're perfect,…or believing that you're better than everybody else.…

You've just gotta believe that you're okay as a person.…You're good enough to deserve to have rights…and to stand up for them.…It's important to think about, are you okay?…Do you think that you're generally all right as a person?…And also other people. Is your starting point with…other people that they're generally okay or not.…It's not gonna be good for relationships if your starting…position is that other people are generally not okay.…