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Chronically Underconfident
- When you are chronically under-confident, your immediate reaction to any opportunity is to turn it down. Pay attention to it.
- Take the time to actually contemplate a new opportunity. Doing so might make you nervous, but that's not a good reason not to think it through.
- You will often find that you would be more encouraging to someone else than to yourself.
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Consider Specific Alternatives
Many opportunities that are put in your path are there because they do fit within your skill set (or close enough that you will succeed with effort).
When you say yes more often, you provide yourself with opportunities to succeed at things that fall inside your capabilities but outside your...
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Use Training Wheels
- You are legitimately worried that something is beyond your capabilities, but that doesn't mean that you should not be involved at all.
- Consider asking a trusted colleague or mentor to work on something with you so that you get some experience working at a level beyond what you have d...
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The Right Confidence Levels
- Confidence is a belief that your knowledge is accurate, that your skills are up to the task, and that you can grow into whatever particular challenge is in front of you
- There is a lot of value in having an appropriate level of confide...
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