There is no shortage of material online related to self-esteem, self-worth and how to build it. Books, audios, blogs, ebooks, seminars, everything you can imagine. However, I will claim in this article that the search for self-worth is an empty and delusional one. There is no such thing as self-worth, therefore trying to raise it is nonsensical. It's not the lack of self-worth that causes all the problems, but the irrational belief in such a lack, which is non-existent and arbitrarily claimed. It all dates back to Aristotle's idea of deep inner essences lurking within all things and beings, containing their true nature. This idea has been refuted by philosophers again and again and is no longer taken serious by the current scientific community. It leads to all sorts of strange unanswerable questions, one of which is the question whether a human being can have worth or not. Certainly a person can be liked by many or hated by many. It's also possible that a person is incompetent at many tasks or competent. However, the link to something like an inner magical essence causing competence or likability has no reference point in reality. It's something we have invented, made up. And it causes tons of stress, anxiety, fear, procrastination for those who believe they ended up with a bad essence and also bigotry and arrogance for those who believe they have a better essence than anyone else. This essence exists only in theory. There is no way to measure such an essence. You can measure performance or likability, but not essence. It's nothing but an idea. And judging it by the effects it has on those who believe in it,it's a very poor one. So if you try to build your self-esteem or raise your self-worth etc. you are working at a task that has no effect on the real world. If you suffer from low self-esteem, there is one thing that will cure you forever: