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On Confidence: A Thought-Provoking Essay That Teaches Us That Confidence Is Not Innate, But a Skill That Can Be Learnt.
On Confidence: A Thought-Provoking Essay That Teaches Us That Confidence Is Not Innate, But a Skill That Can Be Learnt. | The School Of Life
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We spend vast amounts of time acquiring confidence in narrow technical fields: quadratic equations or bioengineering; economics or pole vaulting. But we overlook the primordial need to acquire a more free ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us across a range of tasks: speaking to strangers at parties, asking someone to marry us, suggesting a fellow passenger turn down their music, changing the world. This is a guidebook to confidence, why we lack it and how we can acquire more of it in our lives. On Confidence walks us gently and wryly around the key issues that stop us from making more of our potential.
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Infinite_Adnan
Infinite_Adnan
On Confidence: A Thought-Provoking Essay That Teaches Us That Confidence Is Not Innate, But a Skill That Can Be Learnt. | The School Of Life
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This might be the best book/essay on confidence out there. It's not your casual self-help "you can be anything" book. This book explores the facets of confidence that the self-help community often overlook.

"Confidence isn't the belief that we won't meet obstacles: it is the recognition that difficulties are an inescapable part of all worthwhile contributions."

I'll recommend this book to everyone, of all ages.

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Thndrstd
Thndrstd
On Confidence: A Thought-Provoking Essay That Teaches Us That Confidence Is Not Innate, But a Skill That Can Be Learnt. | The School Of Life
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A thoughtful, thought-provoking book that examines the art of confidence, considering it a skill rather than something inherent. It examines how and why we often doubt ourselves and offers philosophical advice on how to overcome it. A chapter on the imposter syndrome is particularly insightful. Alain de Botton's reading of this audiobook enhanced the experience.

[I received this audiobook via #netgalley.]

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DavidThePavid
DavidThePavid
On Confidence: A Thought-Provoking Essay That Teaches Us That Confidence Is Not Innate, But a Skill That Can Be Learnt. | The School Of Life
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Good one, can recommend.