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I think it's time to do a reframe. What do you think? A reframe from my book Reframe Your Brain, the best reviewed book I've ever written and it changes lives everywhere. All right, a reframe is meant to change your life with just a simple sentence that makes you think about something differently. Not all the reframes are for every person, but you might find one that's just for you.
All right. Today's reframe is the old way of looking at things is that confidence is something you're born with. Do you ever look at somebody who seemed confident and you said to yourself, "Man, I sure wish I were that confident." Well, instead of thinking that confidence is something you're born with, which I do not observe to be necessarily true except for a very few people, confidence is something you learn. Confidence is a learned skill.
I would say that I'm very much in that category. So how many of you would define me as confident? At least in the way that I present myself in public. I present myself as confident, right? That's because in public I only do things I'm good at. Why would I do something I'm bad at in public? So confidence is really just about being good at something. That's it. Just become good at something and then watch how confident you are. And then if you act less confident about som
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ething you're legitimately inexperienced at, that's not really a flaw. That's just you being accurate in your assessment of your abilities. So confidence is something you develop. It's not something you're born with. And that will help you get through those unconfident periods because you'll know there's nothing wrong with you. You're either good at something or you're not. And that would be the…
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