And now it's time to Ask the Shrink.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to today's bonus episode of Ask the Shrink. So today is a question from

Josh. And it's a long one, so I'm going to do a condensed version. And Josh wrote in and said,

before I start rambling on, I just want to take this opportunity to thank you for everything you've

done. I read your story and it was so inspirational. Your videos and advice have been extremely

helpful. And I've seen incredible improvement in areas of my life that I thought I would never

have been able to accomplish.

That's awesome, man. Well done.

I just have one question to ask you.

How do you know when you have achieved full confidence?

I ask this because I put myself out there time and time again with presentations at work,

asking women out, talking to women, and overcoming shyness and fear forever.

And yes, I have been rejected and ignored and everything else.

But from the help of your podcast and your videos, I've been able to take that negativity and smile and just say to myself,

Josh, you're a legend. Well done. And trust me, if you ask me to do that a year ago, there'd be no

chance. Of course, I still get nervous, but I do it anyway, no matter the consequence, I'm just

going to do it. And he goes on to give

some more examples there. But the question is, how to achieve full confidence? How do you know

when you've achieved full confidence? And this is a great question for wherever you are on your journey,

because here's my answer. I don't think it ends. I don't think there is a state of full confidence

where you arrive and you just hang out and coast.

Because what you're doing to build confidence, Josh,

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