A motivational YouTube talk by Clegg encouraging listeners to cultivate strong self-confidence to lead, build careers, and pursue bold visions despite criticism and setbacks. The speaker describes confidence as cyclical, offers practical counsel (avoid energy vampires, toxic news, and distracting depletion), and urges listeners to do interior work, embrace audacity, and persist as lone visionaries when others doubt them.
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Have you had those times where you're building your career or you're out there doing world class work or trying to do world class work, or you're trying to bring on your best game, but you just don't have the confidence? We all go through these seasons. I mean, confidence is like a roller coaster in many ways. You'll have weeks and months and even maybe years where your confidence is incredibly high. And then we have these seasons of lower confidence. And I'm sure you've experienced those periods of time, those cycles where your confidence is a little lower and you might have a great product, you might have a great strategy, you might have a great team, you might have incredible opportunities. But it all begins with you. And if you do not have that high level of confidence, then the people around you don't feel it. No one's going to believe in your lofty vision. No one is going to embrace and enroll in your mighty mission if you don't viscerally believe in it. I mean, no one's going to believe in you unless you believe in you. And we really do have to have the confidence to believe in ourselves. Because a lot of time as a leader, a lot of time as a business builder, a lot of time as a craftsperson, we will be in the wilderness. We will have an idea for a business or a product where the rest of the world says that's impossible. I mean, one of the things that world class producers all have are rare air levels of confidence. Avoid the energy vampires, number two, avoid the toxic news and influences. Number three, avoid depletion through distraction. Surround yourself with confidence fuels. Remember that ultimately life is incredibly short. Okay? And you have an opportunity to do something great with your career and in your life and a lot. The victim postpones being world class, but people like you, and you wouldn't be watching this if you didn't live what I'm speaking about right now. You have an opportunity and a little window of audacity to use today to go out there, whether it's easy or whether you're experiencing hard conditions to go out there and stand for the best of human possibility and even when it's difficult, bring on inspirational productivity. You are going to walk into walls, you are going to face cynicism and criticism, haters and people who just don't get you. Because the very job of a visionary is to move through through the walls of being misunderstood. And you know this. But your day is your life in miniature as you live out the rest of today. So you craft your life think about believing in yourself when no one else believes in you. Remember the idea that leadership is a lonely sport and do whatever it takes so within you you maintain the confidence, the inspiration, the energy, the self faith to go out there in a world where people are throwing rocks at you, there are haters, there are cynics, and the reality is most people don't believe in big dreams, Most people don't feel a lot of energy, most people are scared of a brave heroic dream. And we have to be coming from a place from within where our I can is larger than our I can. You absolutely must do the interior work required where you have these fiery levels of confidence where when the world is saying, you know what, I dismiss your vision or that is impossible, you have to be that lone voice who goes, no, you know what, it is possible and just watch me do it.
