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The Surprising Importance of Self-Confidence 🚀

2023-12-14 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis, Lesson from a book

In an extract from his book Feel-Good Productivity, Ali says self-confidence greatly affects performance, traces the idea to Albert Bandura's self-efficacy, and gives his favourite method, flipping the confidence switch: ask "What would it look like if I were really confident at this?"

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Self-confidence, self-efficacy and the confidence switch

  • ★★ Ali says our level of self-confidence affects our performance a great deal: feeling confident about our ability to complete a task makes us feel good doing it and helps us do it better. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali traces this insight to the psychologist Albert Bandura, who argued that how we feel about our abilities matters to performance and well-being, not just the abilities, and coined the term self-efficacy for it. — 00:00:00

  • ★★★ Ali's favourite method for confidence is flipping the confidence switch: when a task feels particularly difficult, ask yourself what it would look like if you were really confident at it, and you picture yourself approaching it confidently. — 00:00:29

    “what would it look like if I were really confident at this?”

Threads in this video

  • refine · How do you become more confident? — Ali's favourite method for confidence is flipping the confidence switch: when a task feels particularly difficult, ask yourself what it would look like if you were really confident at it, and you picture yourself approaching it confidently. (00:00:29)

Mentioned

Central: confidence switch

Also: Albert Bandura · self-efficacy

Only in the description or credits: Feel-Good Productivity (book)

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