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Dr. Nate Zinsser on Restraining Ego and Building Confidence

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

How to Cultivate Confidence

People with whole lot of confidence don't necessarily have a great big ego. They're certain about who they are and what they can do, because they've already justified it to themselves on the inside. And i think ego ultimately gives gets you in trouble, right? You look at it, you con trast a mc arthur with the marshal, right? The the spot the longer you are in the spotlight, the more likely you are to say something tat perhaps you shouldn't say, or make an enemy that you don't need to make. That that so often leads to are downfall.

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