The best way to boost your self-confidence is to open yourself up to positive new experiences and allow yourself to succeed.

If you have low self-confidence, you probably don’t like taking risks—whether those risks involve physical activity, going for a new job or promotion, talking to someone you like, or just trying a new activity. It is a classic catch-22: your low self-confidence encourages you to avoid doing the exact things that would help you build up your self-confidence.

If uninterrupted, this can lead to an ever-deepening spiral of low self-confidence; you don’t have any exciting new successes, so your self-confidence is even lower, so you feel even less like trying new things.
Of course, the most important thing you can do to build your self-confidence is to get some success experiences under your belt—no matter how small—In this episode, I discuss other things you can try as well.

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Want more? You can watch Amy Cuddy talk about her research and the impact of body language in her 20–minute TED Talk. It’s well worth the time.
https://youtu.be/Ks-_Mh1QhMc

• How to Improve Self Confidence: Lessons from a Teenage Olympian (jamesclear.com)


• Finding Me by Viola Davis

This book is a lot of things, and all of them feel genuine Viola. Are you dark skinned? She tells you what she’s seen and what she feels as a dark-skinned Black woman. And after making it out of a life of poverty and into a successful career against the odds, she realises she doesn’t know how to really love romantically, or how to be intimately loved. So, then she faces that.

It's a great read that gives hope, encouraging readers to look back and embrace childhood dreams or failures, let go of shame, and move forward to become the best version of ourselves.

If you have the opportunity to listen to it as an audiobook, I highly recommend! It is narrated by Viola herself and she is a phenomenal voice actor, as you would expect.

Amazon.co.uk : viola davies finding me

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