Confidence: Your Practical Training

How many opportunities have slipped past because confidence failed at the moment it was needed? Many people have dropped goals and dreams not because their interests changed, but because fear or hesitation stopped them from starting or from sticking with the plan. Ian Tuhovsky argues that early social conditioning and other influences leave most people familiar with this feeling, and that confident people simply find life easier in nearly every area.

This practical training looks at how and why society wears down natural confidence and healthy self-esteem, and which social and psychological traps to avoid in order to feel calmer and happier. It separates real self-confidence from what people commonly mistake it for, and explains what natural confidence is and how it becomes second nature.

The book also looks at the ways the mind works against us while trying to help, and how to stop that pattern. It covers the different kinds of fear and where they come from, how to build a good relationship with yourself, and how to turn stress into inner strength. It compares effective and ineffective ways to build self-esteem, explains why self-acceptance and stress are so closely linked, and ends with advice on staying confident at work.