Food for thought: Selectively lower your confidence.[1] You read it right: lower your confidence. Its a truism in business that you need to have high self-confidence to get things done. But some people think, and for good reason, that lower self-confidence makes people more successful, for these reasons: •Lower self-confidence makes you pay attention to critical feedback and helps you be more self-critical. If youre convinced youre Gods gift to engineering, you probably wont be receptive to feedback. Nor will you be able to criticize yourself effectively. Successful people do exactly that. •Lower self-confidence makes you work harder and prepare more. If youre not convinced youre going to nail your presentation next Monday, youre likely to spend more time practicing and going over your numbers. This is a great habit. •Lower self-confidence makes you less narcissistic. Less narcissistic people are respected more by co-workers, and happy co-workers make a more successful team. Its no secret that respect will make you successful.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:30:36 +0000
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