What's Stopping You? Being More Confident: Why Smart People Can Lack Confidence and What You Can Do About It

by Robert Kelsey

MP3 CD Format Confidence is not like an immunization jab. Its not something that can simply be injected into us through motivational exercises and positive thinking. Confidence comes almost exclusively from experience and self-knowledge.  Millions of smart people are held back by a lack of this self-knowledge and unwittingly generate the kind of self-reinforcing behaviour that leads to low confidence. In the follow-up to the groundbreaking bestseller, Whats Stopping You?, with his very British approach to self-help, Robert Kelsey draws on extensive research and personal experience to provide a road map to help break down the barriers that make us shy away from achieving our true potential. Whats Stopping YouBeing More Confident? is aimed at helping to highlight the key reasons why you might be lacking confidence in the first place, what causes self-doubt or makes you feel less able than others.  Then we are shown how to turn this around, by examining the traits that make someone confident, developing tactics for maintaining self-assurance and learning how to apply these in real-life practical situations. Confidence is about knowing what were good at, but also realizing what were not good at. Once we have come to understand and accept this, we can truly learn how to develop and sustain true confidence. Introduction   Part One Explaining Poor Confidence 1 Scripts 2 Mindset 3 Reactions 4 The Journey Part Two The Alchemy of Confidence 5 Optimism and Resilience 6 Self-efficacy and Talent 7 Courage and Extraversion 8 Trust and Judgement Part Three Achievement 9 Identity 10 Goals 11 The Plan Part Four Situations 12 Shyness 13 Work Us 14 Work Them 15 Dating Part Five Barriers 16 Prejudice 17 Procrastination 18 Depression 19 Stress and Anxiety 20 Hubris Additional What the Psychologists Say

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology, Personal Development

1 pages, Audio CD

First published December 1, 2012

Reviews

[Stachu · Rating 2 out of 5]

Poradnik bez porad, napisany tylko dlatego, że autor leczy własne kompleksy. Być może znajdzie się ktoś, kto znajdzie w tej książce jakieś cenne dla siebie uwagi, ale jak dla mnie to strata czasu. Dokończyłem słuchanie tego audiobooka (papierowej wersji nie dokończył bym nigdy) tylko dlatego, że nie lubię zostawiać książki w połowie. Ale była to droga przez mękę.

[P · Rating 1 out of 5]

Straszny bubel. Cała książka to zżynane treści z wielu innych książek i poglądów ich autorów. Kiedy już się trafiają myśli autora, to sam sobie w nich przeczy stwierdzając, że to czego właśnie próbuję Cię nauczyć sam nie potrafi w 100%. Nie polecam.

[Phil Topping · Rating 4 out of 5]

No nonsense style, which i really enjoyed. My big takeaway from this book was the area of planning, made real sense.

[Kejt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okej, nic w sumie rewolucyjnego ale dobrze zebrane informacje

[Elwirka · Rating 3 out of 5]

For people who suffer for serious lack of self confidence and didn't read tons of books about it and similar subjects earlier. Otherwise it's just a revision (literally - book is synthesis of some best books about self-development ever) with some new stuff from author (valuable stuff, I have to admit).

[W. Clayton · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author has done a great job at reflecting his own journey and his own research of current psychological studies.I found the book helpful with a number of very practical suggestions on how to engage in new self-reflection and next steps.

[Rachael]

I persevered through the first 100 or so pages. I found this book to be full of complaints /blame of others for his lack of confidence & success. The rest of the information was quoting other books or citing research completed by others.

[Audrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

I appreciate the honesty of Kelsey's advice on navigating from one's past into success.