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	<description>How your Self-Esteem shapes your life... And WHY.</description>
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		<title>Our Urgent Need for Self-Esteem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves. That judgment impacts every moment and every aspect of our existence. Our self-evaluation is the basic context in which we act and react, choose our values, set our goals, meet the challenges that confront us. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Esteem as a Spiritual Discipline</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 21:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, everyone! Think about this and tell me what you think. &#160; Self-Esteem as a Spiritual Discipline Four decades ago, when I began lecturing on self-esteem, the challenge was to persuade people that the subject was worthy of study. Almost no one was talking about self-esteem in those days. Today, almost everyone seems to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Definitions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel Branden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chris Mruk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, I was asked to submit a paper that would address the following question: Now that more and more psychologists are doing research and writing books and articles about self-esteem, what do I see as the immediate challenges facing those who work in the field? In response, I submitted this short essay. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism: The Libertarian Vision &#8211; Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel Branden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political concept. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her own mind. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights, the principle that a human being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism: The Libertarian Vision  &#8212; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel Branden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the United States of America, with its system of limited, constitutional government, that implemented the principle of capitalism-free trade on a free market-to the greatest extent. In America, during the nineteenth century, people&#8217;s productive activities were for the most part left free of governmental regulations, controls, and restrictions; most thinkers considered themselves thoroughly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Is an Objectivist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel Branden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some time, there has been dispute over the question of whether Objectivism is an “open system” or a “closed system.” More specifically, the debate has been whether Objectivism is a philosophical system that can be refined, expanded on, amplified, and applied in new directions by those who share its basic premises or whether Objectivism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nurturing Self-Esteem in Young People</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel Branden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I was invited to contribute a paper that would suggest ways that parents, teachers and therapists could nurture self-esteem in children. I offer this paper in its original form, unchanged, as it was addressed to colleagues. Nurturing Self-Esteem in Young People If we are to consider how self-esteem is best nurtured in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answering Misconceptions about Self-Esteem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel Branden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Does self-esteem mean feeling good about yourself? Self-esteem is an experience. It is a particular way of experiencing the self. It is a good deal more than a mere feeling. It involves emotional, evaluative, and cognitive components. It also entails certain action dispositions: to move toward life rather than away from it; to move [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel and the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel Branden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occasionally happens that I read an article or essay that affects me so deeply that I feel a strong desire to broadcast it to the world. This does not happen very often but it happened recently. I hope that no further explanation will be necessary. ISRAEL&#8217;S PECULIAR POSITION by Eric Hoffer (LA Times 5/26/68) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bit of History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel Branden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard the term &#8220;libertarianism&#8221; in the early 1950s, I mentioned it to Ayn Rand as a possible name for our political philosophy. She was suspicious of the term and inclined to dismiss it as a neologism. &#8220;It&#8217;s a mouthful,&#8221; she remarked. &#8220;And it sounds too much like a made-up word.&#8221; I answered, [...]]]></description>
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