•1 Self-esteem is a game of dressing up stick figures in your mind.
•2 Adults play with dolls too, but their dolls are mental stick figures that they clothe with self-images.
•3 Adults play with dolls too, but their dolls are mental stick figures that they move around in movie fragments.
•4 Adults play with dolls too, but their dolls are mental stick figures that they dress and redress with self-concepts.
•5 The dolls or stick figures that adults play with are mental representations of themselves and others that are regarded and treated as real people.