Hello, and welcome back to Practicing Human, the podcast where every day we're

getting a little better at life. I'm your host, Cory Muscara. In today's episode

we're going to talk about developing true confidence. More to come on that in a

moment. First let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay, so confidence. Hot topic, a lot of people want to know how do we cultivate

more confidence. So we'll look at it through two lenses. There's the domain

specific confidence. So this is your confidence in doing certain tasks or

being in certain contexts, sport, music, conversation, socializing, etc. And then

we could say that there's just the general confidence to get through life. Now we

carry ourselves. There's lots that goes into developing each of these kinds of

confidences. But there's one key thing that often gets overlooked, which is

that your confidence is directly related to your capacity to be with

difficult experiences. Your confidence is directly related to your capacity to

be with difficult experiences. Now even that definition we can look at in two

ways. We can perceive it through the lens of developing confidence and also

through the lens of having confidence. So through the lens of developing

confidence, your capacity to be with difficult experiences allows you to try

new things, to overcome them, to make mistakes, to go through what you might

perceive as failures. And your baseline capacity to hold the discomfort of that

and continue to move forward will lead to the development of a new skill set

and understanding of how to do something that would ultimately lead to a certain

kind of confidence. But that confidence that it's leading to is directly

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