It’s barely a convoluted argument that comparisons to others is one of the most detrimental influencer to our confidence. They are also amongst the top things, which every self-help book or article on self-esteem will prescribe to abstain from, because they are believed to impose a rather heavy social taxation on our self-image. And nothing …
Confidence is… the ability to follow our goals without the world getting in the way.
Not too long ago, I was caught-up in a spinning wheel. I would go through the motions every day at work—the emails, the small chats in the hallways, the back-to-back meetings, the one-on-ones with my manager strategizing about my career. And I would feel completely unmoved. At first, it didn’t feel out of sync. After …
We are often our hardest critics, but remember: The only person you really need to impress is yourself. The only person you can truly fare against is the person you were yesterday.
There is a lot of commotion these days about confidence. We have to be self-assured, we are told, otherwise we may as well forget about success and reaching our goals. Insecurity is a shameful disease in our 21st century—a weakness and a character flaw, which prevents us from becoming our true selves. Self-esteem has been extensively …
Confidence is… knowing that there is always another chance to face the world tomorrow. That it’s never too late to make amends and start anew. Be kind to yourself but don’t give up trying and moving forward.
Without doubt, the feeling of being of “lower quality” than others can be rather daunting and frustrating. To be able to successfully address them, we can start by understanding the concept itself — or what’s referred to in psychology as the “inferiority complex (IC).” It’s a term that originated by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Alder —the most prominent psychologists of all time–who describe it …
Confidence is… smiling when you are down; walking tall when all you want is to hide under the table; keeping calm despite feeling the storm inside. Because you are stronger than you often believe.
Confidence is…smiling when you are down; walking tall when all you want is to hide under the table; keeping calm despite feeling the storm inside. Because you are stronger than you often believe.
We all know that the Big Five personality traits—openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism—are important personality-determinants. Their varying combination in each of us dictates why we evolve to become who we are. And up until recently, scientists believed that we can’t do a single thing to change this. Or, as the saying goes …