E174: James Smith: Become Confident In 100 Minutes

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

James Smith is a fitness influencer and the two-time best-selling author of Not a Life Coach and Not a Diet Book. His no holds barred approach to fitness advice makes him unlike any other fitness influencer today, and now he’s bringing his unique philosophy to improving people’s confidence.

According to James, we’ve been getting self confidence and how to achieve it all wrong. Confidence is not a surefire belief in ourselves to achieve great things, but rather confidence is being at peace with the idea of losing or things going wrong. When you know it isn’t the end of the world, you realise losing isn’t the same as being defeated.

Like James’ brutally honest fitness advice, there’s no quick fix to confidence, or any miracle cure. James starts, like he always does, by looking at himself honestly - and truthfully - in the mirror, and all he asks is we do the same as well. James’ book is out today.

Topics:

Why did you write a book about confidence
How deep are our confidence issues?
Our pain points in confidence
The base of confidence and how we build it
what is audacity? A: Airing your opinions
Happiness recipe
Productivity
Are you a workaholic
Your relationships
monogamy
Dating
How do I help my friend that isn't changing?
What do you need to work on?
Building confidence with evidence
picking your passengers
utility of deprivation concept
what is your goal?
The worst day of your life
How can someone build confidence today?
The opposite to happiness is boredom
The last guests question

James’ book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Be-Confident-international-bestselling/dp/0008536449

James:

https://www.instagram.com/jamessmithpt/

https://mobile.twitter.com/jamessmithpt_

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I was failing. That was the point for me where I was like,
0:03.0	I need to do things differently.
0:06.0	Hard of seeing what I've done.
0:08.0	It's James Smith.
0:09.0	Three talking personal trainers.
0:10.0	He's helping you get confidence.
0:12.0	So I'm seeing James' curse-filled rants as confrontational.
0:15.0	Oh James, come in, I'll see you.
0:17.0	James, good to see you again.
0:20.0	Self-esteem and confidence is decaying.
0:22.0	When you're at that place of feeling that you don't have enough confidence,
0:25.0	it's actually a crossroads.
0:27.0	It's left and right, action and inaction.
0:29.0	Whatever you're not changing, you're choosing.
0:32.0	Dating is such a big topic because people either don't have the confidence required to meet someone
0:36.0	or they might not have the confidence to leave someone.
0:39.0	We're allowed to be ignorant in these things and we're allowed to be wrong.
0:41.0	That doesn't mean we shouldn't endeavour to get the best possible outcome.
0:47.0	What are you not confident about?
0:49.0	I constantly have these battles in my head.
0:51.0	Why did I create this fast?
0:53.0	Why did I have sweat patches from such a simple interaction of being uncomfortable?
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