How to Be Confident: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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Another says, "I'm a psychotherapist, and I have gotten a lot out of this book personally and have recommended it to a lot of my clients. Carry out the activities by yourself or with family and friends and take your confidence into your own hands! Move your goal posts, always making adjustments to ensure you’re heading in the right direction towards a confident you. One thing I like about James Smith is he never claims to be some supper academic, in fact he regularly states how normal or a “fuck up” he has been in his life. If you want to learn more about yourself and build self confidence then do yourself a favour and read this book.

I must say My expectations were met, and I was pleasantly surprised by how consumed I am by my own mind and thoughts. She gets to many of the same points, only with far less pretension, self-importance, and self-aggrandizement. After following this guy on all social media pages and suffering from a lack of confidence in the past I purchased this book and from start to finish it is full of good information and strategy’s onto how to improve your confidence, including using personal and relatable stories so you know it’s comming from someone who has experienced these issues in the past making it more relevant to me personally. I can however see myself going back to sections and they are short, easy to digest and cover individual topics nicely. There are more academic books out there, sure, but the simplicity of this makes it something anybody can read and come back to repeatedly.

This positive and insightful guide gives you the tools to build your confidence, overcome low self-esteem, and embrace opportunities in all areas of your life. A lot of the topics I already was aware of and are part of my core values, but the book did not fail to instil more habits to become a more confident me, as well as providing me with plenty of reference and resources to use when supporting those around me. In this book, she drew on the finest words in her personal collection to carefully select, from over 300,000 quotes, the most positive and inspiring words. It covered quite a broad range of relevant areas to confidence and there were some golden nugget reminders which I will list but the main message of this book to me was that to be more confident you should know your values and live them.

There are many points that seem contradictory from some sections, and reading cover to cover felt like it lost some direction. sunk cost fallacy - eg just because you’ve been with someone for years doesn’t mean it’s right- people can stay just because they don’t want to waste the resources they’ve already invested. The content is more or less a kindle reel of highlighted points of view, anecdotes and ideas from others, best suited for a blog post. It’s not a hidden fact that you discovered and shared with the rest of us dummies… ‘Meta-analysis is analyzing the results of multiple studies…’ is the same as ‘orange is both a color and a fruit’ - just condescending.

Yes he does veer a little of course but keep an open mind and those jigsaw pieces will all fit together. It really doesn’t matter where you start but where you’re going, setting the next goal, gives you an incentive to continue. That actually made it readable and I was often surprised with how fast I was getting through sections. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. I feel as though I've been picked up, thrown upside down and shaken around with all of the thoughts running through my brain since I started reading.

I read it before a salary negotiation, and as a result, I upped my initial asking number (and they gave it to me)! Make the success just being an attempt and don’t worry about if you actually succeed in it this time. The third number one bestselling instalment in James' no-nonsense guides to gaining the tools to empower your decision-making and change your life.Now, more than ever, we are so often lost within a cycle of negativity – from comparing ourselves to others and doom scrolling on social media, to a paralysis of choice and chasing external gratification that does nothing to nurture authentic happiness. Keep your ego in check for clarity of thought and a realistic hold on where you’ve come from, where you’re at and where you want to be. While I was filling up the form, I felt like we were the perfect family for him and that our context would help him get the life he deserves and guess what?

I will say though, if you're looking for life advice from someone who is more-or-less a social media influencer, you would be better served by reading Grace Helbig's Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to be a Grown Up. The revenue stream "is great," Kyle Kazmer says — but that's not even his favorite thing about the "rewarding" gig. Ok, so, long story short - I’ve never actually read James’ other books but what he says on social media resonates with me so I decided to give this one a shot. While it’s not a roadmap or checklist of how to be confident, James does a good job of listing out examples from his experience on how to be more confident.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). What We Love: Shonda Rimes may have had three shows on television, but she didn't have it all -- especially when it came to confidence.