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    Confidence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt
    Confidence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt
    Confidence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt
    Audiobook7 hours

    Confidence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt

    Written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

    Narrated by Sean Pratt

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    About this audiobook

    World-renowned personality expert reveals the truth about something we all want more of-confidence

    Millions of people are plagued by low self-confidence. But in Confidence, personality expert Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic shows us that high confidence makes us less likeable, less employable, and less successful in the long run. He reveals the benefits of low confidence (including being more motivated and self-aware), teaches us how to know when to fake it, get ahead at work, improve our social skills, feel better emotionally and physically, and much more.

    With this engaging, practical study of our minds and emotions, we can become more capable in every facet of life. Based on decades of research, including the author's own groundbreaking work, and filled with fascinating anecdotal evidence, this will appeal to listeners of The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal and Succeed by Heidi Grant Halvorson. Confidence will shatter every myth you've ever believed about self-confidence and its effects on us-ranging from the very personal to the global level.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateNov 1, 2013
    ISBN9781469057880
    Confidence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt
    Author

    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is Professor of Business Psychology at University College London (UCL), and visiting Professor at Columbia University. He has previously taught at New York University and the London School of Economics. He is the author of eight books and writes regular blogs for Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today. He lives in London and New York, and frequently appears in the media. In 2016, he was named one of Thinkers50 next generation of business gurus, 'most likely to shape the future of how organisations are managed and led'. http://www.drtomascp.com/

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    • 1/5
      I skimmed this book because the author has one point that he repeats: measuring and focusing on competence instead of confidence is paramount to success in life. He repeatedly asserts that low-confidence is preferable to over-confidence because it leads to higher competence. He goes as far to say that depression is a benefit. He never, as far as I heard, accounted for self-defeating behaviors and inability to act. There is certainly a middle ground here that the author avoids by reasserting his single point. The book is primarily written to convince people to stop lauding confidence and convince over-confident people to seek more constructive feedback. Otherwise, for low-confidence people he says accept the low-confidence, implying that low-confidence is warranted and people looking to improve confidence instead of competence are avoiding work. Certainly, there are a lot of people who don't develop their skills sufficiently and should focus on increasing their competence, but I would argue to separate low-confidence and accurate confidence. I assumed that over-confidence meant not commensurate with competence just as low-confidence means not commensurate with competence. For the author, only the prior seems to be an inaccurate measure.

      He sounds like a person who has never experienced an inability to accurately assess their own competence or experienced the impacts of excessive or misdirected improvement. You can read the intro and then move on. Cal Newport's So Good They Can't Ignore You is a better book with a more helpful similar message about passion and competence.

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    • 5/5
      I had several eye opening moments while listening to this book. Probably the most notable being to "Don't be yourself." I had a visceral reaction.... because who exactly should I be instead. He, however, explained it beautifully. That along with processing it with my coach and friends helped me get huge breakthroughs from this book. Read with an open mind to receive because it is truly a counter cultural approach to building confidence in 2024.... and if you let offense or misunderstanding stop you from completing the book, you'll miss the message. Afterall, you're reading this to learn something you don't already know. Expect your current thought processes about confidence to be challenged. Enjoy the journey and God bless.