All right, men, welcome. I am Connor Beaton, and today we're going to talk about the five things that

you can do to be more confident. There's probably a ton of videos that you've seen on this or articles that

you've read online. And I think, unfortunately, what most of them miss as a foundational starting point

is just defining what confidence actually is. So confidence is the feeling or belief that one can

rely on someone or something. And the key word in there is rely. We're going to talk about that in

a second. So to have confidence in another person, you need to know that you can rely on that person for a number of different

things, right? Whether it's for them to show up on time, for them to be honest or truthful,

for them to have a sense of competency in what they're talking about or what they're doing.

So confidence within yourself is really about reliance. It's about

self-reliance and how you as a man can begin to develop the skills and the understanding that

you can rely on yourself to follow through with what you said you're going to do, to create something that matters,

to be able to push through challenging things, right?

All of these components play into developing a sense of self-reliance.

So rather than thinking about, oh, I want to develop more confidence, what I want you

to start to think about is how do I

develop a deeper sense of self-reliance? How do I create the structures, the activities, what decisions and

choices do I need to make to understand that I can rely on myself, to do the right thing, to say the right thing, to make

the right choice, to follow through with what I've said I'm going to do. So to have confidence

in yourself is to simply rely on yourself. So confidence essentially is about a sense of security,

a sense of trust, hence the opposite of insecurity, right? So if you have

insecurity over here and confidence over here, what we're actually talking about is insecurity,

you feel insecure in the sense that you don't know if you can make the right choice, make the right

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