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How you feel about yourself crucially affects virtually every aspect of your life, especially how high in life you are likely to rise. Who and what you think you are shape all your responses. Self-esteem, therefore, becomes the key to success or failure. It is also the key to understanding yourself and others.

Let a renowned psychologist show you how to give your ego a healthy boost. In 60-minutes, Dr. Nathaniel Branden can show you how to dramatically boost your self-image - and raise your self-esteem. His practical, action-oriented audio program outlines simple but effective daily behaviors you can practice on your own that will radically transform the way you think and feel about yourself. Starting today, you can overcome self-doubt, guilt, and defeatism to break through to a new level of confidence and fulfillment that will improve every aspect of your life. Complete with individualized exercises and dramatized case histories, Dr. Branden will show you how to: raise your self-esteem in daily life, break the cycle of self-defeating behavior generated by low self-esteem, overcome feelings of guilt that contribute to low self-esteem, transform your self-image to accept yourself as you really are, take responsibility for your own happiness, boost your self-esteem in love, friendships, business relationships, and much more.

Self-esteem is the reputation you get with yourself. You develop this reputation through your actions. Competent, confident and courageous actions enhance self-esteem and build inner strength. Such experience leads to the conviction that you are competent to cope with the challenges of life - and the belief that you deserve happiness and success to be yours. The opposite is also true.

"Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem", says pioneering psychologist Nathaniel Branden, "and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life."

When others look at you, what do they see? What would you like them to see? A confident, successful person brimming with ideas and energy? Or a fearful, passive person? Others see you as you see yourself. Your image of yourself is a reflection of your self-esteem, which defines your level of professional success and personal happiness.

Here is an accessible, clear explanation of the true meaning of self-esteem, the relation of reason and emotion, the nature of free will, and the powerful impact of self-esteem on motivation, work, friendship, sex, and romantic love. This classic work is fresh, contemporary, and as vital and powerful as the day it was written. It remains a revolutionary contribution to man's understanding of himself.

The original, never-before-published lectures on Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, by Nathaniel Branden, with a foreword by Barbara Branden and an epilogue by Dr. Branden. These lectures systematized Rand's philosophy for the first time and created a philosophical movement.