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IAN ROBERTSON - Author of How Confidence Works: The New Science of Self-belief - Co-Director of the Global Brain Health Institute

Sep 28, 2023

Ian Robertson, Co-Director of the Global Brain Health Institute, discusses the importance of confidence and how it can be learned. He explores why some people are overconfident while others are realistic about their abilities. The podcast also touches on topics such as the future of AI, the transformation of Ireland, connecting with nature, and promoting brain health.

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Quick takeaways

Confidence is a series of mental, physical, and emotional habits that can be learned and is essential for reaching new heights and achieving success in life.

Narcissistic people with high self-evaluations, like Boris Johnson and Trump, are able to do things despite not mastering their brief and their positive self-perception engrosses them, making them less anxious and creating charisma.

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The Power of Confidence

Confidence is a series of mental, physical, and emotional habits that can be learned. It is essential for reaching new heights and achieving success in life. Venus Williams' belief in herself and the ability to learn and develop confidence is a key factor in her success. Confidence empowers action, unlike optimism or self-esteem. While men tend to be more overconfident, women are often more realistic about their abilities. However, confidence can be learned and cultivated by anyone. Small differences in confidence can lead to significant disparities in success, but the right learning and experiences can bridge the gap. Confidence is a mental, physical, and emotional habit that can be acquired and harnessed for lifelong benefits.

Introduction

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The Power and Importance of Confidence

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The Future of AI and Its Impact on Human Lives and Jobs

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The Transformation of Ireland: From Hardship to Collective Confidence

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Connecting with Nature, Controlling Emotions, and Promoting Brain Health

4min

Exploring the Inner Universe and Harnessing Confidence

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How important is confidence? Psychologists say confidence is a series of mental, physical, and emotional habits that can be learned. What makes some people overconfident while others are realistic about their abilities and why are both outlooks important to succeed in life?

Ian Robertson is Co-Director of the Global Brain Health Institute (Trinity College Dublin and University of California at San Francisco) and Co-Leader of The BrainHealth Project at University of Texas at Dallas. A trained clinical psychologist as well as a neuroscientist, he is internationally renowned for his research on neuropsychology. He has written five books and numerous newspaper and magazine articles and comment pieces in the Guardian, Times, Telegraph, Irish Times, Time magazine and New York magazine, amongst others. He has appeared on BBC Radio and featured in several major television documentaries. He is a regular speaker at major futurology and business conferences in Europe, the USA and Asia.

“Narcissistic people have very high self-evaluations. This means they're able to do things in spite of not having mastered their brief. I'm thinking of Boris Johnson and Trump, in spite of having lots of legal cases against them. And so the kind of things that would make the rest of us anxious, the narcissist is so engrossed in their positive self-perception that they're not fazed by things. But the other thing about narcissism, particularly in the media, it can create charisma, and charisma gives you status, and status makes you persuasive. And persuasion gets you money and power and all sorts of other things, and these reinforce the charisma. So there's a rather sinister, vicious cycle to the narcissist and vicious to the rest of us. That can put people who are not fit for power in power because of the superficial, supreme overconfidence that is a part of narcissism.”

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