Confidence

“Of all the variables that psychology measures, the two that I think are the most important are confidence and motivation, right? Confidence and motivation. People think it's intelligence, but it's actually not.”

“Like if I will take a confident executor with a sprinkle of delusion over almost anybody else, the entire game is almost all confidence.”

“Unfortunately, confidence is not a very good predictor of affinity.”

“When we look at the data, when we look at the definition of confidence, when we look at what it feels like for us, confidence actually comes after we take action. Because when we're taking action, we are getting proof points that we can do the thing. We're bui…”

“Imposter phenomenon is where your competence has increased because you have to have a track record of success in order for it to be considered imposter syndrome, but your confidence hasn't caught up.”

“Confidence isn't about believing you're gonna achieve success. It, it's a comfort with failure. It's knowing that you're gonna be okay if it doesn't turn out okay. Like, that's actually what makes you confident in a situation.”

“I continue to believe that most people get successful because of insecurity, and there's a rare breed That gets there through confidence, and I'm so grateful that I'm in that small group, and I see it in others.”

“Success begets acolytes who tell you you're right when you're wrong. Worse, you start believing them. This leads down a dangerous path where vision breaks from reality and, likely aided by a fear of failure, Curdles your confidence into a con.”

“To me, confidence is self-trust, which I think is very different from feeling good about yourself. And in, in a related way, you know, I think often, like, confidence isn't feeling like the best at something. It's feeling like it's okay to be you when you're n…”

“The only way to be ego oriented and be successful is you better never lose your confidence. Cause what we know is confidence is a variable. Sometimes we're more confident than others. If you're ego oriented and you lose your confidence, that's where the embarr…”

“What is confidence? My definition is a high opinion of yourself and a high opinion of others.”

“And then the other piece of that, which is sort of a toxic combination, if in the wrong hands, and I think a productive one, if in the right hands is you need confidence to be able to believe in yourself and go and do something and persuade other people, you k…”

“I've always said that people follow confidence, but they're loyal to vulnerability, and so if you're vulnerable with your team about the things you're terrible at, Someone will lean in and take that over for you.”

“The number one thing is that people develop confidence When they have struggled to overcome something and they have come out victorious.”

“That's what, in the book, I try to like, that's ego. It's like, ah, yeah, I'm gonna pass without studying. Yeah, that's the ego talking. Confidence is like, no, to me, confidence comes from work, you know, putting the work in,”

“I see white guys all the time don't know what they're, the hell they're doing, but you know what they do have? Confidence. They're gonna get out there and say, I want to figure it out, and I'm sure I'll be okay. I'm sure I can figure this out.”

“Like nothing great would be accomplished without ego. We'd never try anything new. We'd never you know, endeavor to do anything because we would, we need to feel confident.”

“Organically, confidence arises out of our relationship with our body. Like, the more I feel embodied, the more I feel I'm here, I feel like I belong here. Like, it's, in a sense, right for me to be here, or I have a right to be here, and it's not an inner deba…”

“I think that a lot of confidence comes from not necessarily what we've done, but how we talk to ourselves.”

“The research shows that as you give people additional pieces of information about something, the accuracy of their forecasts don't improve at all, or their bets don't improve at all, but their confidence tends to soar.”

“The person who talks more than others that's have shown to be correlated with thinking that they probably know what they're talking about and talks more confidently. So we have to make sure that we realize confidence does not equal competence.”