增加自信指南 How To Be Confident

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信心,是大家通向取得成功最关键的要素之一,是取得成功的原动力。有时候增强自信的方法并不是给自己打鸡血,而是接受并正视平庸又“白痴”的自己。

In well-meaning attempts to boost our confidence ahead of challenging moments, people often try to draw our attention to our strengths: our intelligence,our competence,our experience.

But this cancuriouslyhave some awkward consequences.

There's a type of under-confidence that arises specifically when we grow too attached to our own dignity and become anxious around any situation that might seem to threaten it.

We hold back from challenges in which there is any risk of ending up looking ridiculous which comprises,of course,almost all the most interesting situations.

In a foreign city, we might grow reluctant to ask anyone to guide us to the nice bars, because they might think us an ignorant,pitiable,lost tourist.

We might long to kiss someone but never let on out of a fear that they could dismiss us as a predatory loser.

Or at work,we don't apply for a promotion, in case the senior management deems us delusionally arrogant.

In a concerted bid never to look foolish, we don't venture very far from our cocoon, and therebyfrom time to time at leastmiss out on the best opportunities of our lives.

At the heart of our under-confidence is a skewed picture of how dignified it is normal for a person to be.

We imagine that it might be possible,after a certain age, to place ourselves beyond mockery.

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