So much depends on appreciating your true identity, Sheri Dew says at BYU

When Sheri Dew was a young college student, she recalled being “riddled with self doubt: I couldn’t shake the belief that I wasn’t smart enough, cute enough, clever enough, pretty much anything enough.”

“I grew up with more inferiority complex than you can imagine,” she told an audience at Brigham Young University for the annual Truman G. Madsen Lecture on Eternal Man , sponsored by BYU’s Wheatley Institute . “It’s been a real struggle for me.”

In her remarks exploring the “power of identity,” Dew, the executive vice president of Deseret Management Corporation and a former member of the Relief Society general presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ, emphasized that “few questions are more vital for every human soul to understand, because our identity or how we see ourselves affects