Your worth squares are that full, and always were.

If I ever meet the Connections Mentat that made, “Extra Virgin olive oil” a category I’m going to piss in their pants.

I was never getting blue or purple

Very true about all three. Coffee makes you feel more tired, alcohol makes you more depressed and unclear, and no sleeps hurts everything.

Change who's around you.

Plan B, try to change how you let them affect you. Easier said than done, but very effective when pulled off.

The perspective shift is this: if they bully you, tease you, put you down, and you get angry and sad, notice that you let them decide your feelings. Instead, view what they say, as something that says more about them than it does you.

Source: I struggled with bullying. I'm still considered odd, but that I'm OK with that.

I wanted to disagree with you or come up with an example of when having self worth would be better than the concept not existing, but I can't think of anything. Maybe I had too many shrooms on my last trip, but I get what you are saying.

Dignity. So "worth" in the humanist sense of the word, not in the transactional sense.

"Worth" in the humanist "all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights" sense, not in the capitalistic "if you aren't rich or making the rich richer, then die" sense.

Worth fluctuates. I’d say Michael Schumacher is worth a lot less than he used to be…..

Michael Schumacher is still valued by his family and friends, regardless of how society at large may view the earning potential someone who has suffered a TBI. His worth as a human is no less simply because he can’t increase the value of Ferrari or Omega or Marlboro anymore.

That’s sort of the point.