Why So Many People Struggle to Gain Self-Esteem

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We won't track your information when you visit our site. But in order to comply with your preferences, we'll have to use just one tiny cookie so that you're not asked to make this choice again. Ayn Rand held that self-esteem is not simply desirable, but an essential value in human life. It is no less important, no less necessary, than food and physical health. And on her view it is something within your direct control to achieve: each of us can attain it. Yet many people find it difficult. Why? One major factor, which I mentioned in a recent webinar on Rand’s conception of self-esteem, stems from the fact that self-esteem is in part a moral assessment. Rand described self-esteem as the “inviolate certainty” that one’s “mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living.” Self-esteem calls for judgment of oneself by a demanding standard. This fact is a key to understanding a common roadblock that prevents so many people from attaining self

Objectivism & Philosophy Why So Many People Struggle to Gain Self-Esteem Elan Journo September 18, 2019 4 min read Ayn Rand held that self-esteem is not simply desirable, but an essential value in human life. It is no less important, no less necessary, than food and physical health. And on her view it is something within your direct control to achieve: each of us can attain it. Yet many people find it difficult. Why? One major factor, which I mentioned in a recent webinar on Rand’s conception of self-esteem , stems from the fact that self-esteem is in part a moral assessment. Rand described se

Why So Many People Struggle to Gain Self-Esteem

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