Hey, this is Leo, for Actualize.org, and in this video, I'm going this topic of self-esteem. Self-esteem is a very rich and deep topic and it affects the

quality and the success that you have in your life and also the happiness level

that you achieve in your life and a lot of the information I'm bringing to

here is coming from Nathaniel Brandon's amazing seminal work on self-esteem which is

called the six pillars of self-esteem. We're going to go into some definitions of what

self-esteem is. We're going to define it. We're going to talk about some of the

influences on self-esteem, why you might have low self-esteem, and how you might

start to go about correcting it and we're actually

going to go in and break down and look at each of the six pillars that Nathaniel Brannett talks

about.

It's a very rich topic so I encourage you to buy the book if you want to

really know a lot more. This is going to be kind of an introductory segment where I

really tell you why self-esteem is important and what you should be doing with it.

All right, so what is self-esteem?

Let's take a technical definition.

And really it's a two-part or definition,

and I'm going to read this off.

This is how Nathaniel Brandon states it.

Self-esteem is the disposition to experience oneself as competent to cope with the basic challenges of life

and as being worthy of happiness.

Let me read that again.

It's the disposition to experience oneself as competent

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