How to Become Self-Confident

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode Forrest and Dr. Rick explore how we can improve our self-confidence, allowing us to become more psychologically flexible and create healthy boundaries with other people. They explain why becoming better at something doesn’t always make us more confident, the two paths of gaining confidence and releasing insecurity, and how we can release insecurity over time. They then talk about the differences between confidence and narcissism, dealing with other people when they try to put us down, and how we can develop an authentic sense of self-worth. Neurodharma Course! Join Dr. Rick for Neurodharma, a live, online course focused on developing seven key qualities that help us steady the mind, warm the heart, and find a reliable sense of inner peace. Neurodharma launches October 14, use code BeingWell20 for 20% off the purchase price. You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 2:15: Separating confidence and capability 8:10: Releasing insecurity vs. gaining confidence 13:25: Sources of insecurity, celebrating others’ vision, and tapping into universal currents 20:30: Redefining what a win looks like, and surrendering to the best in ourselves 26:30: Finding people who believe in you, taking action, and not knowing 31:20: Our core beliefs, why they are rational, and how to update them 34:35: Self-worth, and confidence in your own innate goodness 38:55: The difference between self-confidence and narcissism 44:00: Facing the fear of what will happen if you are confident 52:00: When being poorly received is about others and not you 54:45: Recap Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors: Factor delivers fresh, never-frozen, fully prepared meals right to your door. Head to factormeals.com/beingwell50 and use code beingwell50 to get 50% off. Body Electric is an interactive six-part podcast series from NPR that investigates how our relationship with technology is impacting our health. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Finally get that project off the ground with Squarespace! Head to squarespace.com/beingwell for a free trial, and when you’re ready to launch use coupon code BEINGWELL to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hansen.
0:10.7	If you're new to the podcast, thanks for listening today.
0:13.4	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:16.2	In our last conversation, we talked about one of the most powerful skills we can learn.
0:20.6	The ability to change our perspective, see things in a new light, and become more flexible.
0:26.6	This helps us relate to others and ourselves much more effectively, regulate and manage
0:31.2	our emotions, and find new paths when we thought that all of the doors were closed.
0:36.8	During that conversation, we also talked about self-confidence, including how self-confidence
0:41.0	can support healthy forms of flexibility.
0:44.4	When we're sure of ourselves in a variety of different situations, and trust that we'll
0:48.2	be able to handle what life throws at us, we don't need to be so rigid.
0:52.6	On the other hand, we don't want to be so flexible, though we start to feel like we're
0:55.8	a doormat that life walks all over.
0:58.8	And self-confidence can help there too.
1:01.0	As it gives us the belief in ourselves, we need to create healthy boundaries with other
1:04.4	people, stand in our truth, and pursue what we really care about.
1:10.2	So today, we're going to be exploring how we can become more self-confident, and I'm
1:13.3	joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen, because a clinical psychologist, a best-selling author,
1:18.6	and he's also my dad.
1:20.0	So dad, how are you doing today?
1:21.5	I'm good, and I'm confident that this will be a good episode.
1:25.5	Yeah, I love this topic.
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