3 tips to boost your confidence - TED-Ed
TED-Ed
4 min, 17 sec
The video explains what confidence is and provides practical tips on how to cultivate it, emphasizing the role of personal choice in developing confidence.
Summary
- Confidence combines self-esteem, certainty about one's abilities, and the courage to act on challenges.
- Confidence origins include genetics, environmental influences, and personal choices.
- Practical tips for boosting confidence include envisioning success, adopting a growth mindset, and practicing failure.
- Immediate confidence boosters include powerful poses, music with deep bass, and positive self-talk.
- Long-term confidence can be built through embracing a growth mindset and viewing challenges as opportunities.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2

The video discusses the origins of confidence, including genetics, environment, and personal choices.
- Genetics influence neurochemicals in the brain impacting confidence.
- Social environment and pressures affect confidence levels.
- Individual choices, risks, and responses to challenges play a major role in developing confidence.

Chapter 3
Chapter 4

The video emphasizes the importance of adopting a growth mindset for long-term confidence.
- Believing that abilities can improve over time, like a muscle, is crucial for resilience.
- A growth mindset supports the idea that brain connections strengthen with practice.
- People with a growth mindset tend to be more successful, particularly when facing obstacles.

Chapter 5

The video outlines how accepting and learning from failure can build lasting confidence.
- Regularly facing failure and persisting afterward helps develop constructive responses to setbacks.
- Famous examples of perseverance include J.K. Rowling and the Wright Brothers.
- Trying new strategies, seeking advice, and perseverance are key to overcoming failure.

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