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Start With Small Steps
The key is that if you’re repeatedly struggling to build confidence in a specific area, you need to practice with a smaller version of a goal and continue building up both sides of your self-confidence: managing insecurities well and building self-efficacy.
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Managing Insecurity
The best way to manage insecurity is to acknowledge and accept it rather than immediately trying to fix it or get rid of it.
You need to build up the belief that you're capable of handling scary situations well. And that belief only gets built through hard-won experience, n...
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How to Get Started Building Confidence
Building self-efficacy requires the ability to manage insecurities.
Manage insecurity by practicing difficult conversations with your spouse or by having Chinese food for dinner instead of burgers.
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Building Self-Efficacy
Coined by the psychologist Albert Bandura, self-efficacy is the belief in your ability to perform well when faced with a specific challenge.
It doesn't mean the absence of fears, worries, or insecurities. It means you continue to believe in your abilities despite them.
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Self-Efficacy Comes From Experience
- When you repeatedly prove to yourself that you can perform well in a given situation, you slowly build up a belief in your ability.
- Confidence requires managing insecurities well.
- It's hard to deal with your insecurity well if you don’t have the ability to manage them well.
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Building Confidence
Building confidence has two distinct but essential components: managing insecurity and building self-efficacy. If you want to build confidence, you need to work on both of these two sides of confidence simultaneously
- Managing insecurity: build self-confidence
- Self-...
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A Practical Guide To Building Motivation And Focus
How to hack your self-efficacy to provide you with the desired confidence, in spite of the inevitable obstacles:
- Break your goal into smaller tasks.
- Track your progress using any tracker app.
- Set up steps to get feedback at an early stage.
- Ask questions, re...
Notes On Small Talk
- The goal of small talk is to build a bridge between people. Subject is irrelevant, as long as you have one.
- Focus on what you'd like to learn about others and things you enjoy talking about.
- Ask follow-up questions and listen betwe...
Build a Personal Brand
- Develop Your Brand Story. The first step is getting clarity on why you are creating this story or what your long-term goal is—such as finding a new job or pivoting industries.
- Build a Website. Once you have your brand story, you’ll need to create a p...
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