The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong with Eric Barker
The Science of Success
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The Downsides of Confidence
confidence was a really interesting thing to explore because you know no I've never heard anybody say I'm trying to decrease my confidence. California launched a state initiative to try and increase the self-esteem of students what they found is that it had almost no effect at all in fact the only effect it probably had was increasing narcissism. Research has shown that self-compassion provides all the benefits of self-confidence without any of the negatives and it's a very powerful tool that we can use to uh to get us out of the self-confidence trap, he says.
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