Women Founders, Is It Your Responsibility to Be Confident?

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confidence is overrated and humility is underrated, says pollyanna. N it shouldn't be your responsibility as a woman founder to have to figure out what kind of contortion act do i have to master? "I think that the kind of confidence i want to see is what read hoffman described to me once as confidence in your ability to learn," she adds.

Great pitches can seem like genius or magic. But you don’t have to be a great salesperson to give a great pitch. Whether you’re floating an idea at a team meeting, looking for investors for your startup, or applying for your next job, life is full of pitching moments. In this episode, we bust myths about what it takes to drum up excitement–and share insights from Hollywood and Silicon Valley on ways to improve your chances of getting your audience on board. This is an episode of WorkLife with Adam Grant, another podcast in the TED Audio Collective. To hear more episodes on the science of making work not suck, follow WorkLife with Adam Grant wherever you're listening to this. For the full transcript of this episode, visit go.ted.com/WL44.