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The Confidence Project
Follow the practical advice within the book and undertake The Confidence Project ; a complete plan for helping you make better decisions and take action in order to fulfill your true potential.
Often the only thing separating successful people from the crowd is the self-belief they have running around inside their heads and their innate self-confidence. This book isn't about promoting unrealistic positive thinking - it will help you understand the complex psychology of your beliefs, your assumptions, opinions, values, attitudes, judgements, biases and delusions, and provide a pathway to more confidence.
Some of us overestimate ourselves and are overconfident or even unwittingly arrogant and unable to see our flaws. Others underestimate ourselves and are unaware of our full potential. The reality is the most of us overestimate ourselves in some respects and underestimate ourselves in others.
This book will open your eyes, doing away with unhelpful beliefs and instilling new, more helpful beliefs about yourself and the world.
Often the only thing separating successful people from the crowd is the self-belief they have running around inside their heads and their innate self-confidence. This book isn't about promoting unrealistic positive thinking - it will help you understand the complex psychology of your beliefs, your assumptions, opinions, values, attitudes, judgements, biases and delusions, and provide a pathway to more confidence.
Some of us overestimate ourselves and are overconfident or even unwittingly arrogant and unable to see our flaws. Others underestimate ourselves and are unaware of our full potential. The reality is the most of us overestimate ourselves in some respects and underestimate ourselves in others.
This book will open your eyes, doing away with unhelpful beliefs and instilling new, more helpful beliefs about yourself and the world.
- GenresPsychologyNonfiction
304 pages, Hardcover
Published April 23, 2019
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Rob Yeung
79 books39 followersPhD psychologist, consultant, conference speaker. Specialist in high achievement, leadership, careers, confidence and well-being.
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January 6, 2021
I know I need to work on confidence, and this book took surprising good turns on giving short- and long-term tips on how to improve not only that issue, but my life. There are a few tests at the beginning, but then we get to the stuff itself. My results were the usual low-level ones (ha). There are several ways here to make you feel confident, and also appear as such to other people. The author stresses that over-confidence is bad for you, and that not just one method can be a cure-all for one's confidence's lacks. There is a glossary list at the end for all the words you're gonna bump into while reading. Some parts of the text are repeated soon afterwards in small boxes, but don't let that bother you (at least not much if they do).
The book's aim is to be easy-to-follow, and for me it was. Every chapter ends with 'things learned', and the chapters are grouped in four groups, of which II and III focus on smaller methods for inner and outer types of confidence (one can lack in one while fine in the other, lack both or neither), while part IV focuses on bigger, more whole-life changing ways (including one measuring which values matter most in life). Part I is more introductory that helps with further parts 8)
So in short: Part II – dealing with inner emotions, making mental movies for success, tackling negative thinking. Part III – appearance outwards, socializing and conversations, dating and relationships. Part IV – working your way to confidence in parts you find lacking, using mindfulness, tackling problems and opportunities, and creating the life you want through knowing your values and what brings you (or might bring you) happiness in everyday life (the way of MARSH, and within it, the SPARK – it will make sense as you read on).
At the conclusion, the author stresses that multiple methods are needed in gaining confidence and changing your life, and different methods work for different people and their situations in life. One should not expect things to change quickly, but commit to patient work, and patience with oneself. I found the methods and how they were presented completely making sense, and felt encouraged to use them. Now that I have made my notes on the book (and noted also pages that are better to read from the book itself), I can see how I (and you) can use it. A good surprise of a book that leaves you with courage to put things to use.
The book's aim is to be easy-to-follow, and for me it was. Every chapter ends with 'things learned', and the chapters are grouped in four groups, of which II and III focus on smaller methods for inner and outer types of confidence (one can lack in one while fine in the other, lack both or neither), while part IV focuses on bigger, more whole-life changing ways (including one measuring which values matter most in life). Part I is more introductory that helps with further parts 8)
So in short: Part II – dealing with inner emotions, making mental movies for success, tackling negative thinking. Part III – appearance outwards, socializing and conversations, dating and relationships. Part IV – working your way to confidence in parts you find lacking, using mindfulness, tackling problems and opportunities, and creating the life you want through knowing your values and what brings you (or might bring you) happiness in everyday life (the way of MARSH, and within it, the SPARK – it will make sense as you read on).
At the conclusion, the author stresses that multiple methods are needed in gaining confidence and changing your life, and different methods work for different people and their situations in life. One should not expect things to change quickly, but commit to patient work, and patience with oneself. I found the methods and how they were presented completely making sense, and felt encouraged to use them. Now that I have made my notes on the book (and noted also pages that are better to read from the book itself), I can see how I (and you) can use it. A good surprise of a book that leaves you with courage to put things to use.
December 28, 2023
This book gives an array of techniques to help improve outward and inward confidence combined with evidence from numerous studies
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