Guide to Happiness
Episode Four
Montaigne on Self-Esteem
Montaigne on
Self-Esteem looks at the problem of self-esteem from the perspective of
Michel de Montaigne (16th Century), the French philosopher who singled
out three main reasons for feeling bad about oneself - sexual
inadequecy, failure to live up to social norms, and intellectual
inferiority - and then offered practical solutions for overcoming them.