Building Confidence

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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🗓️ 31 May 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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"Building Confidence" - Listen to my Morning Monologue: I’m sharing my take on pressing issues, enlightening research on human behavior, answering questions I get by email, and my favorite, most instructive interactions with callers. Everything you’ll hear is designed to help you become a better spouse, parent, family member, co-worker, friend, and human being. It’s the free therapy you need! Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:18.6	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triamp and connect with me 24-7 at
0:26.6	Dr.ora.com.
0:28.5	How do you build confidence?
0:32.0	Now, most of you think it comes, just period.
0:38.3	It just comes from people patting you on the head, getting rewards, telling you're
0:45.3	wonderful.
0:46.3	It doesn't work that way.
0:48.3	Have ever had the feeling, you know, you've done something, made something, whatever?
0:53.3	And people around you are going, ooh, ah something, made something, whatever.
0:56.4	And people around you are going, ooh, ah,
0:59.4	and you're just staring at them because you know,
1:03.7	hmm, was it my best? I didn't have my heart into it.
1:06.7	It's not that you're being pathologically negative.
1:15.3	It's just that, you know, compliments, not based on anything, make snowflakes.
1:21.1	That's why it's a terrible thing that all these little sports teams for little kids give trophies out to everybody because it means nothing to anybody.
1:28.4	And when you're a little kid, you're almost limitless in confidence because you're fearless.
1:34.8	I mean, jumping off the couch into a puddle of water just seems like a good idea.
1:39.6	When you start going to school and the competition hits and some people are better and some aren't,
1:46.9	it gets a little curious.
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