358 - Heather Monahan: Create Confidence Up From Nothing

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Heather Monahan told me that with every decision you make, you're either going to be building confidence or chipping away at it. So I wanted to learn how to be building it more often than I am destroying it. Because according to Heather, author of "Confidence Creator," confidence is not static. It's a muscle. And you can work on it at any stage of life. She says, "It's not a natural gift. It's practice." Links and Resources Confidence Creator by Heather Monahan Also Mentioned Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini My upcoming interview with Keith Hernandez (subscribe to the podcast to make sure you hear it) Compilation video of Eddie Murphy on David Letterman Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg The song "Glorious" by Macklemore The Honda Civic Effect My YouTube Channel which just launched I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Linkedin Instagram ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.
0:12.4	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.2	There's a lot of similarities for me personally between getting fired and getting divorced.
0:19.8	Those are low moments. For me those were both very low moments where I question myself.
0:24.2	I question, who am I? What am I doing?
0:27.2	How did I get in this situation? Where did I go wrong? What's wrong with me?
0:31.8	And those feelings were so awful in the moment and time.
0:36.8	But what I've learned over 43 years is you can actually create confidence.
0:42.4	You can build that muscle daily. It's a choice.
0:45.4	And no one is born magically confident.
0:48.2	They might have had mentors or parents or someone in their life teaching them why and how to be confident.
0:53.6	But the reality is confidence isn't static. It isn't just there and for the rest of your life you're going to be confident.
0:59.0	You could be confident in one part of your life and not in another.
1:02.2	I mean there are so many great techniques and obviously confidence really is the difference between
1:07.2	I think success and failure in so many different situations whether it's professional or relationships or investing or getting yourself opportunities.
1:15.6	I think it's so hard though. If someone's listening to this and they've never been able to do this before,
1:21.6	how can you say they start? Because it's hard to just start I think particularly if you've gone deeper into the no confidence zone.
1:30.8	How do you make that leap? To say okay I'm priority number one when I just got fire, got the war, it's been broke, whatever.
1:38.4	You have to ask yourself that question. In some moments you have to fake it until you can make it.
1:43.4	But when you're asking yourself right now I'm either going to be building confidence or chipping away at it because that's reality.
1:49.4	And if you're scared to try something and you back out of it you're chipping away at your confidence and instead of you go in and challenge yourself to do it,
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