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A Bit of Optimism

Confidence with Sara Blakely

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Confidence is this thing we all need… this thing we all want. Some seem to find it easier than others. Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx, found it and it worked. This is… A Bit of Optimism.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Be confident. Build yourself confidence. We're always told when we're growing up.

0:13.0

Confidence is attractive. Confidence helps you get a job that you're applying for.

0:18.0

But where does confidence come from? Are we born with it?

0:22.0

Absolutely not. We can learn confidence.

0:26.0

And Sarah Blakely, the founder of Spanx, she absolutely learned how to build her confidence.

0:31.0

And it's that self-confidence that helped her build the company without any debt, without any investors.

0:38.0

And she became a billionaire. Confidence is a powerful thing.

0:43.0

This is a bit of optimism.

0:46.0

This is such a treat for me because I'm such a fan of yours.

0:57.0

I wanted to talk to you. There's one of my favorite things about you.

1:01.0

You have a kind of confidence that few people I know have.

1:07.0

But you have this sort of quiet calm about you, this sort of self-deprecating sense of humor.

1:13.0

And yet I know how much you believe in yourself and believe in the things that you do.

1:18.0

And it's that sort of belief in your direction that I find just more magical.

1:28.0

Thank you.

1:29.0

The question I have is, were you always that way or did it build over time?

1:36.0

I was born with it to a certain degree.

1:39.0

And then there was a lot of work I did throughout my life to cultivate it even more so.

1:46.0

Like?

1:47.0

Like when I was 16.

1:49.0

You see how this is going to go, right?

1:53.0

Yes, I've been working on mindset since I was 16.

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