016: How Confidence Affects Your Productivity

What is confidence? What doesn’t it look like? You can find millions of photos shared on all types of social media. But is this really what confidence looks like? Or is it a way of sugarcoating the hard truth that confidence is more than just a photo snap? Yes, people have described confidence in many ways, but to truly understand it might be more than what people already believe it to be. Dr Nate Zinsser, a former high school MVP turned author, speaker and consultant- talks about the confident mind. Specifically, he joins the podcast to share more about how you think affects you and that you have the free will to decide how it should be. Confident MindAs described in the book, the confident mind follows your confidence in the sense of certainty you have about yourself or a particular ability. It allows you to express that ability and demonstrate that confidence more or less unconsciously without having to talk yourself through it or analyze what you're doing step by step. It proceeds more or less naturally; you think about how you are when you do something as simple and as common as tying your shoelaces. Devaluing OneselfThere's a lot of times where people get to the point where they're good at something, and to become second nature, they don't realize the skill level that they have. And so they end up devaluing it. We have a habit of devaluing, emotionally discounting, and taking so many things that we do well for granted. It's remarkable how many athletes and other performers talk about their experiences. And when it comes to light that they've worked very hard, they've developed certain capabilities and demonstrated these capabilities on many levels, yet, they don't allow those memories to create a sense of energy and optimism and enthusiasm for their future. They've just emotionally swept them under the rug.  The Bank AccountYour sense of certainty about yourself is, in fact, the expression of all the thoughts that you have about yourself, all the thoughts you have about that particular ability, an