Confidence: How to Overcome Self-Doubt, Insecurity, and Fears
1h 7mBeginner2021-05-25
Authors

TJ Guttormsen
Communication Coach
Course details
Confidence comes from within yourself. In this course, instructor TJ Guttormsen provides information and practical exercises to help you change and improve the thoughts and emotions that might be holding you back, so that you can participate more fully, both professionally and privately, in the world around you. TJ explains your comfort zone and growth zone and shows you how to create your own growth zone exercises. He discusses how to train your superego and remove self-doubt, then goes into where feelings of fear and anxiety come from and how you can overcome them. TJ describes ways to overcome some common challenges, such as comparing yourself to others, the need for approval, imposter syndrome, and people-pleasing. He goes in-depth on techniques to understand others and manage their expectations, then concludes with action steps to build your social confidence.
Skills covered
Well-Being and Self-CarePersonal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - A few words about the course
1. Understanding Yourself
- 02 - Comfort zone or growth zone intro
- 03 - How to identify your growth zone
- 04 - How to create your own growth zone exercises
- 05 - Superego - The source of self-doubt
- 06 - How to train your superego and remove self-doubt
- 07 - Where fears come from and how to overcome them
2. Overcoming the Most Common Challenges
- 08 - How and why to stop comparing yourself to others
- 09 - Overcoming your need for approval
- 10 - Overcoming impostor syndrome
- 11 - How to stop people-pleasing
3. Understanding Others
- 12 - Actor-observer bias - People aren't what you think
- 13 - Barnum statements prove that everyone shares the same insecurities
- 14 - The great misunderstanding - Don't confuse nerves with disinterest
- 15 - How to predict people's behavior more accurately
- 16 - The four personality types - Step outside the social hierarchy
- 17 - How to manage your expectations of others
Conclusion
- 18 - Action steps to take to build your social confidence step-by-step
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