The foundations of confidence | Brittany Packnett

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🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Confidence. We talk about it all the time. We know it matters. And still, educator and activist Brittany Packnett thinks we underestimate it. "Confidence,” she says, “is the necessary spark before everything that follows.”

In this talk, Brittany identifies the three basic elements of this elusive force, which can be especially valuable for people whose role models don’t look like them.

After the talk, Modupe shares one more technique that has propelled her year after year at work. Spiderman makes a brief appearance.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:16.4	host Madupa Akenola, a professor at Columbia Business School. In her 2019 TED Talk, Brittany Packnet, a writer, activist, podcast host, and former teacher.
0:24.0	So when I was a little girl,
0:26.0	told us about a very special object.
0:29.0	A book sat on the coffee table in our living room,
0:32.0	just steps from our front door. in our living room,
0:32.6	just steps from our front door.
0:34.2	And the living room is a first impression.
0:36.6	That room had to stay perfect.
0:39.2	But I would risk messing up that perfect room
0:42.2	every day just to see that book.
0:45.0	On the cover, it sat a woman named Septima Clark.
0:49.0	She sat in perfect profile with her face raised to the sky.
0:54.2	She had perfect salt and pepper corn rose
0:56.8	plaited down the sides of her head
0:58.7	and pride and wisdom just emanated from her dark skin.
1:03.5	Septimic Clark was an activist and an educator,
1:06.3	a woman after whom I'd eventually model my own career.
1:10.8	But more than all the words she ever spoke, that single portrait of Septima Clark,
1:16.0	it defined confidence for me before I ever even knew the word.
1:21.0	Confidence. We talk about it all the time.
1:25.2	We know how important it is, that it matters.
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