#1. Conquer Your Past
- Often our insecurities and anxiety come from not where we are now but what we've been through before.
- We think what we went through is something we deserve or it defines us what we are today.
- Confident people don't let their past live there as it is. They try to make sense of it and choose their learnings.
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