What confidence does to your brain, why it helps with anxiety, and how to get it if you don't already have it. Plus, the problem with overconfidence.

Ian Robertson is a Professor Emeritus in Psychology at Trinity College and was the founding director of Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. He has written five books, the latest of which is called, How Confidence Works.

In this episode we talk about:

What confidence actually is
How to boost confidence
The dangers of overconfidence, and how to guard against it
The role of anxiety and failure
The "Oscar effect", and why winners tend to live longer
How to reframe anxiety as excitement
The role of gender, race, and class on confidence levels
The importance of distancing yourself from confidence saboteurs
And much more

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