Real Confidence Blog
Science, Secrets & a Touch of Tough Love
Most people think outwardness and confidence go hand in hand. From heavily socialized classrooms to open floor plan offices, western society grooms extroverted tendencies and then scans for those same traits when teasing out the leaders from the followersâbelieving that introverts arenât as confi...
Most people try to hide their shortcomingsâŚespecially when that shortcoming is a lack of confidence. However, confidence isnât something you can fake, and more often, when people try, they wind up overcompensating by being cocky.
âCockyâ is one of the behaviors we call a confidence impostor: it...
Confidence is defined in terms of certainty. Often the two words are even conflated: Youâre confident youâll ace that presentation, confident your favorite sports team will win, and you have confidence in people who have proven themselves reliable.
But in life, youâll inevitably hit crossroads tha...
Lacking a life vision or purpose can be at least unsettling. However, if you have a direction that you arenât completely confident about, that is equally terrifying, perhaps even paralyzing.
For example, do you have a job that you really donât like â even hate? I bet it challenges your confidenc...
Enough is the most underutilized word in the American-English language. We should use it a lot more since it is key to confidence.
We are a society that fundamentally believes that âmore is betterâ. Our socially rigged lens (and relentless social media reminders) donât let us usually see when ou...