No, you don’t.

And in fact, you’ve got it completely backward:

You’ll only feel confident once you start acting confident despite not feeling it.

And here anxiety’s not the problem. It’s your anxiety about anxiety that’s killing your confidence.

And what’s really holding you back from confidence is the belief that you shouldn’t feel anxious about what other people think of you.

The real problem isn’t your lack of confidence — it’s that you judge the validity of your confidence based on external factors.

You are the final authority on your confidence. Don’t outsource that job to someone else.

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fe...

If you lack confidence in social situations, the most important thing you can do is not judge yourself for caring about what other people think.

“Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”

― Emma Donoghue