Welcome, guys and gals to the Man Talks podcast. I'm Connor Beaton, the host and founder of Man Talks.

This week's midweek mini episode, we are going to dive into confidence. And we're going to talk about how you can cultivate confidence quickly. So how do we develop confidence fast? I think that's something that a lot of us are, you know, sometimes I see people struggling with. And this has actually

come out in conversation with men in our Facebook community. So if you wanted to join that,

head on over to Facebook.com forward slash mantox dash community or you can just search for

Mantox community on Facebook. Some great conversations there. But recently, this conversation of confidence,

how do you build confidence, has come up a lot lately.

And I actually had a guy message me the other day through Instagram.

You direct message me and said,

hey, what's the best hack you have for building confidence?

And I kind of sat with it for a while.

And I was like, well, why don't you just

Google it? And, you know, half-ass joking. I was joking with the guy. So why don't you just Google it?

And he's like, I did. And the responses seemed pretty lame. And so that got me interested.

And so I googled quickest way or fastest way. I can't remember what it was to build confidence.

And there was things like groom yourself and dress nicely. I googled quickest way or fastest way, I can remember what it was, to build confidence.

And there was things like groom yourself and dress nicely and like Photoshop your self image and think positive and kill negative thoughts and, you know, act positive and just this,

this like super basic personal development, nonsensical sort of garbage, right?

That doesn't, it doesn't actually mean anything. It's like, all right. Like, sure. Like,

you shouldn't look like a hobo, not knocking hobos or homeless people, but you shouldn't

look like you're homeless because that will probably impact your level of self-confidence

because it's a reflection of how you view yourself. I was like, okay, I get that, but that's

pretty basic. And for most people, you know, if they just go get a haircut and maybe put on a

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