#535 - James Smith - How Do You Develop Real Confidence?
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
James Smith is an author, podcaster, online trainer and not a life coach.
Many people say that their number one personal development goal is to be more confident. But what if you don't have anything to be confident about? Is competence a required prerequisite to becoming confident or can you fake it until you make it?
Expect to learn why most entrepreneurs are miserable, how leaving unasked questions can eat up your mental energy, the relationship between anxiety and confidence, how to deal with fear and failures, the heritability of confidence, whether women are actually more confident than men, the simplest way to build genuine confidence and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:03.7 | My guest today is James Smith. |
| 0:05.7 | He's an author, podcaster, online trainer and not a life coach. |
| 0:10.4 | Many people say that their number one personal development goal is to be more confident, but |
| 0:14.9 | what if you don't have anything to be confident about? |
| 0:17.7 | Is competence a required prerequisite to becoming confident, or can you fake it until you make |
| 0:22.8 | it? |
| 0:23.8 | Expect to learn why most entrepreneurs are miserable, how leaving unasked questions can |
| 0:28.4 | eat up your mental energy, the relationship between anxiety and confidence, how to deal |
| 0:33.0 | with fear and failures, the heritability of confidence, whether women are actually |
| 0:36.8 | more confident than men, the simplest way to build a genuine confidence, and much more. |
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