In my view, there’s an important distinction between honest self-acknowledgment and passive self-acceptance. So, should we accept ourselves? I’d argue that a better word is acknowledge. We need to acknowledge who we currently are—the good, the bad and the ugly—while actively working to improve ourselves, rather than simply accepting who we are. Continuous acceptance without real change becomes a form of copping out. As the old saying goes, actions speak louder than words.
