Fatima’s Reviews > The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know > Status Update

“Our life experiences, we believe, outweigh any genetic dictates. The result has been that today we can actually work and perform with genuine self-assurance even in conditions of high stress. (Live television is nothing if not pure, undiluted, and immediate stress.)”

“some of your lack of confidence comes from a more Freudian, less genetic place. It may well come from patterns created in childhood, neural tracks will lay down memories in response to that. Think of it as a cement highway that can create knee-jerk first responses in the future. But, if you can layer that over with new memory networks, you can reroute the highway”.