Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #111469 in Books
• Published on: 1997-01-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 288 pages

Customer Reviews

An excellent starting point for personal development
I found this book enormously helpful. It really opened my eyes to habits of thinking of which I was completely unaware. This is not a self help book, in the cook book style, but an informed explanation of what self-esteem actually is and what kinds of thoughts and behaviours can build or undermine it. Not only will this book make you think, it will make you think differently.

Superb insight into self esteem and being happy
What makes Nathaniel Branden different from many of his peers is his very rational objective approach to psychology. From this philosophical basis Dr Branden has developed a fascinating insight into what self esteem actually is and how one develops it (or fails to!)

Excellent chapters on death anxiety, self sacrifice and the society appropriate to the development of self esteeem round off the best book in the genre I've read (with the exception of The Six Pillars of Self Esteem by the same author)

It will change your life!
Two sections are absolutely incredible in this book-- that of "Rational Self-Interest" and "Death Anxiety". Dr. Branden uses REASON as his perfect way to convey his ideas. He is the first author in this area, that does not look at self-esteem as if it is something by itself that you "work on". Instead, he reveals what it really is, and how it comes about from REAL choices and actions; thus, it is based in reality. Dr. Branden's books are rare to me in that I read them almost continually; while other books are useful and good, I would put them on my shelf and re-read them only occassionally. I am ALWAYS reading at least one of Branden's books at any time, continually.