After understanding how to recognise my talents and value that I bring to an organisation from completing the Build confidence with self-promotion GOOGLE course. I noticed that I still need help in understanding how to carry myself in a manner that communicates self-confidence to others. To begin understanding I watched the TEDx talk by Dr. Ivan Joseph called The skill of self confidence.
Self-confidence is an important skill because without it you lose sight or belief in yourself, you are done for. Dr. Ivan Joseph defines self-confidence to be the ability or the belief to believe in yourself to accomplish any task, no matter the odds or the difficulty, no matter the adversity. The belief that you can accomplish it, self-confidence.
Dr. Ivan Joseph believes that self-confidence is a skill that can be trained, the ways he believes this is possible is as follows:
Repetition, repetition, repetition- The problem is that we expect to be self-confident, but we can’t be self-confident unless the skill or the task we are doing is not novel to us. We want to be in a situation where we are under pressure during practice so that when we are doing the task or skill, we are confident. The ability to practice something over and over again correlates to a decrease in the amount of nervousness or lack of self-confidence in one’s own ability. Coupled with this habit of repetition we should also be persistent through failure that may happen as we work to build our self-confidence.
Self-talk- This is the voice that plays in your head. If there is negative self-talk in our heads it negatively impacts our actions and vice versa if there is positive self-talk in our heads it positively impacts our actions.
Acknowledge positive behaviour- remind yourself of the times that you did a task or skill correctly right and then recognise that although you’ve made a mistake you are capable of correcting and improving your actions. This preserves your self-confidence because you are not being critical in a demeaning manner, which suggest that you are incapable, but in a way where you acknowledge that you are capable of doing what you set out to do.
Choose how to interpret feedback- Interpret feedback as opportunities for improvement.
After this TEDx talk I was able to recognise that mindset plays a role in self-confidence. That even if I was able to recognise my talents, skills and past achievements that if I don't move past the negative mindset that I hold then I will not be able to grow self-confidence. This TEDx talk put into perspective lesson three of the GOOGLE course, specifically bullet points 3-5. I will work on my self-confidence by working on my mindset, following the four steps listed above.
Link to TEDx Talk: The skill of self confidence | Dr. Ivan Joseph | TEDxRyersonU
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