Customer Reviews
Honest and helpful - By: Mrs. J. L. Shervey, 07 Sep 2007 
This book can be life changing if you are prepared to put the effort into it. It is not a two week & change your life quick fix. It increases your awareness of how you live your life & how you can make smalll steps to change it. It is not easy to face alll the things you avoid but by using this book consistently & persistently over time your life can change for the better. Highly recommended.
The Six Pillars really do work in raising self-esteem - By: Elastigirl, 16 Apr 2006 This is a truly excellent book. Unlike other self-help books that I have read, this author actuallly knows what he is talking about. Nathaniel Branden is a clinical psychologist & he uses the principles in this book to help his clients raise their self-esteem - so they reallly do work. Until I came across Branden's books, I had stopped reading self-help books for a long time, because I had found that the principles in them were ineffective.
Do not put the cart before the horse! - By: Markku Ojanen, 11 Dec 2000 
This book is full of good sounding advices, but the basis is wrong. Self-esteem is not something you can boost, but you can do your best & to practice love. Self esteem is not a cause, it is an effect. In each pillar you get about 15 smalller pillars, which is simply too much. Nobody can follow alll these advices. Just by reading it you may feel good for a couple hours, but why don't you simply decide to be a better human being now. You do not need these happiness books for that.
great motivator - By: , 03 Feb 1999 takes the individual through a self analysis of why people fail, & what self-esteem is made of
Branden At His Best: Rational and Informative - By: , 09 Dec 1998 Nathaniel Branden is the father of the self-esteem movement. When his first book, The Psychology Of Self-Esteem was published, the word self-esteem was non-existent on the cultural scene. On first experiencing Nathaniel Branden at one of his workshops, I remember thinking to myself, this is rationality at its best. Over the years, Branden's books on self-esteem have continued in this tradition. Six Pillars Of Self-Esteem appears to be a culmination of his knowledge on the subject, a broadening of experience of over 25 years since the publication of The Psychology of Self-Esteem. For anyone interested in self-improvement or growth, for anyone wishing to break free from the cycle of the past or to discover the disowned self, for anyone floundering in the world of pop-psychology or five-minute improvement courses, this is the type of book that can lead the way. Once again, Nathaniel Branden demonstrates rationality at its best.
