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  1. How to Build Self-Esteem | SFM Episode 12 Adam Braus 32:58

Many successful people claim that having high self-esteem was a big factor, even the primary factor, in their success. In California in the 1980s, politicians claimed that if students had higher self-esteem, they would have better grades and engage less in smoking and premarital sex. 

Is self-esteem the kind of solution that these self-esteem boosters claim? Will it solve our personal and social problems?  Well, it is complicated.

Braus is an expert in evidence-based research about education and learning, and in this episode, he goes ham on the complex and often misunderstood idea of self-esteem. What is it, how do we measure it, what does it do to people, and how to build it? 

Should we, as a society, develop more self-esteem or do we have too much? Does self-esteem help people to be more successful? Will a teenager or child make better choices and have more success if they have more self-esteem? 

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Adam Braus is a polymath professor and professional in San Francisco. He has built many companies and non-profits and currently building a new college called Elton College. He is a lover of big ideas and new solutions.