The Tom Woods Show, episode 543.

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Hey, everybody, how many times have you heard that self-esteem is critically important? It's so

important that you think well of yourself.

Regardless of anything else, you should think well of yourself.

And that's what we need to instill in children. It's what we need to instill in adults.

It's the solution to so many problems. And in fact, if you listen really closely to people promoting this, what we

might call gospel of self-esteem, they really seem to speak as if the sky's the limit in terms

of what increased self-esteem can accomplish. Well, our guest today doesn't buy any of it,

and our guest is Dr. Michael Edelstein.

He's an old friend of Walter Block.

He's an old friend of the whole libertarian world, really.

Dr. Edelstein is a clinical psychologist and speaker.

He runs an in-person, Skype, and telephone therapy practice in San Francisco and Mill Valley, California. He's the author of four

books, including three-minute therapy with Dr. David Ramsey-Steel, a book that features help

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