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To attain success without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

Nathaniel Branden

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Nathaniel Branden
Age: 84 †
Born: 1930
Born: April 9
Died: 2014
Died: December 3
Academic
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Positive
Anxiously
Feeling
Imposter
Success
Awaiting
Feelings
Attaining
Without
Condemned
Self
Exposure
Like
Attain
Esteem

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