It only derives worth if and when put to use by human beings.
I found Almond's chapter on "Vampyric Motherhood" particularly lucid: stage mothers derive self worth from each child's accomplishments and "feed from the child to obtain gratifications," while other mothers "co-opt the child's autonomy" by forcing food "into the child — food in the form of ideas, behaviors, allegiances, and beliefs".
Oddly enough, the press kit for Blue Jasmine contains the following statement "Jasmine's flaw is that she derives her worth from the way she's perceived by others, while she herself is blind to what is going [on] around her".
This is calculated by dividing a start-up's estimated worth (derived from venture-funding rounds, equity transactions on secondary markets and so on) by the number of its users.By this benchmark, Groupon scores well, just below Facebook and Renren, a Chinese social network with a listing in America (see chart).
Out-of-the-money options, lacking intrinsic value, have a worth derived entirely from their time value.
The figure is derived from $5 trillion worth of mortgage-backed securities sold from 2005 to 2008, which could result in $882 billion in losses.
Deriving self-worth from achievement-related domains, like Ivy League admissions, is a common strategy among closeted men seeking to maintain self-esteem while hiding their stigma.
However, the idea that men can only derive self-worth from being breadwinners in the workplace has not changed, which leaves little room for either gender's assigned "roles" to advance.
Students can be taught to view the media's obsession with thinness with a critical eye, to understand that negative comments about the body are a form of harassment, and to derive self-worth from areas other than appearance.
While that is certainly true for men like Jeff Goldblum, for the average scrub who sleeps in a loft bed and doesn't have any goals, this is a delusion an inflated sense of self-worth derived from privilege and entitlement.
