The Working Genius Podcast with Patrick Lencioni

96. The Key to Confidence

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Sep 23, 2025

Explore the unique relationship between confidence and self-awareness. Discover how admitting weaknesses can actually highlight your true strengths. The Working Genius framework offers valuable language for identifying and celebrating your gifts. Learn why humility goes hand in hand with authentic confidence, and how nurturing this in the next generation can ignite their potential. Tune in for insights that redefine what it means to be truly confident!

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INSIGHT

Confidence Is Truth-Aligned Self-Knowledge

Confidence arises from aligning your self-view with objective truth about your strengths and weaknesses.
Knowing what you love and what you avoid is the foundation for authentic confidence.

INSIGHT

Proof Beats Affirmations

Confidence comes from a stack of undeniable proof, not empty affirmations.
Working Genius supplies language and evidence to prove who you are to yourself and others.

ADVICE

Name Your Weaknesses First

Admit and verbalize things you are bad at to relieve pressure and enable honest celebration of strengths.
Use candid weakness-acknowledgment as a gateway to safely claim your gifts.

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How can understanding your strengths and weaknesses through the Working Genius model lead to true confidence?

Confidence isn’t about pretending to be great at everything—it’s about knowing and accepting the truth about yourself. In episode 96 of the Working Genius Podcast, Patrick and Cody explain how the Working Genius framework provides a foundation for authentic confidence rooted in both strengths and weaknesses. They share practical insights on how humility, honesty, and self-awareness create confidence that impacts work, relationships, and life.

Topics explored in this episode:

0:30 – Defining Confidence

* Confidence is not arrogance, but alignment with truth about yourself.

* Humility and confidence complement each other by grounding people in reality.

3:40 – The Power of Admitting Weaknesses

* Acknowledging what you’re not good at frees you to celebrate your real strengths.

6:20 – Building Confidence Through Working Genius

* The Working Genius framework provides language for identifying gifts and frustrations.

10:55 – Humility, Gifting, and Evidence

* Confidence is strengthened when you recognize gifts as given, not earned.

15:30 – Confidence for the Next Generation

* Helping young people discover their genius accelerates confidence and direction.

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