You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson The Foundation of Confidence: Embrace the Fact That You Are Perfectly Imperfect (Heroic +1 #1,774)
May 30, 2024
Dr. Nate Zinsser discusses building confidence through imperfection and positive thinking. Explore self-belief, strategies for confidence, embracing imperfections, and the impossibility of perfection.
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Turning Emerson's Chess Losses Into Growth Fuel
- Brian describes using Emerson's chess losses as fuel to cultivate a win-or-learn mindset.
- He credits Maurice Ashley and Kobe Bryant for contributing wisdom to that approach.
Confidence Is Certainty That Enables Automatic Performance
- Confidence is a felt certainty that lets you bypass conscious thought and perform automatically.
- Building that certainty requires deliberately shaping your mental bank account of memories and interpretations.
Actively Manage Your Mental Bank Account
- Take command of your mental input by selectively retaining successes and reframing setbacks.
- Make deliberate deposits into your confidence bank through memories of progress, effort, and wins.