Mini: Moving Fear into Confidence with Dr. Lara Pence
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
One of the best ways to build confidence is to utilize your fear of something and move through it with courage. Although some believe that courage is the absence of fear, this couldn't be further from the truth. Courage is about being afraid but doing anyway - and from this we build confidence because we can reflect on that which we have accomplished and create a library of moments in which we see our greatness arise. Reality testing is another great way to build and tap into confidence that might already be there. By truly asking yourself questions like, What am I good at?, and seeking truth in our reflection we can create opportunities for us to have perspective on our strengths. LESSONS: Courage builds confidence, and courage is at play when we are afraid of something but we do it anyway. Try to use your fear as an opportunity for confidence building and use positive self-talk to get you through. Reality testing is a very healthy way to also build confidence. Reality testing includes taking a deep look at what you feel vs. what is fact. SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay FOLLOW SPARTAN UP AND DR. L: Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/ Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod Dr. L on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drlarapence/ CREDITS: Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Host: Dr. Lara Pence Synopsis: Dr. Lara Pence © 2020 Spartan
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? It's Dr. L here with Spartan Mind and today we're talking |
| 0:08.7 | about moving fear into confidence. Hmm now wait wait a second, is that really how it works? |
| 0:15.0 | No, it's not how it works actually. |
| 0:18.0 | Fear isn't necessarily where we gain or lose confidence. |
| 0:22.0 | Fear is just a feeling. And the thing is a lot of |
| 0:24.4 | individuals think that they gain confidence by not being fearful. No, that is not |
| 0:29.2 | accurate. We actually gain confidence by doing and then taking the evidence around us and integrating it |
| 0:35.8 | into our life, right? |
| 0:37.5 | So courage does not come from the absence of fear. |
| 0:41.3 | Courage comes from having fear and doing it anyway. And I know you know what I'm talking about. |
| 0:45.8 | If you've ever done a Spartan race, you totally know what I'm talking about. Because at some point on that race, |
| 0:50.8 | I guarantee there was a part of you that was a little bit afraid and |
| 0:53.6 | then guess what you did it anyway you crawled under that barbed wire you got into that |
| 0:58.4 | dunk wall right you lifted up that big Atlas carry whatever it is that you thought you couldn't do, you ended up doing. |
| 1:05.2 | And that is about confidence. |
| 1:07.2 | And here's one thing that helps the confidence, reality testing. |
| 1:11.0 | So if you're struggling with your confidence, I really want you asking yourself, |
| 1:14.3 | what is one arena in which I have been successful? So if I was feeling not |
| 1:19.7 | confident about something, then what I might think is, okay, well, what's one thing I'm really good at? |
| 1:24.6 | I'm really good at my job. |
| 1:25.7 | I'm a really good psychologist. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm a really good therapist. |
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