Jim KwikFounder, Kwik Brain · Brain Coach

How to gain confidence to take bold steps in life! 💪

24 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief exchange, Speaker A asks for recommendations on cultivating confidence for bold actions. Speaker B prompts reflection by asking about the speaker's first public talk, encouraging evaluation of past performance. Speaker A admits the talk was not the best, highlighting a candid self-assessment that can serve as a starting point for incremental confidence building.

What would you recommend that they could do to maybe even cultivate that confidence to make bold steps?
How was the first talk you gave? How'd it go?
Not the best ever.
Exactly. They call them toddlers for a reason, because 2-year-olds toddle. But you rarely see a healthy kid grow up to be a toddler when they're 30, unless they're drinking a lot. So what happened? Well, they stopped falling so much. I'm not proposing to people that they write a novel today. I am saying you probably have one blog post in you, and if you need to write it under an assumed name, please do. And then tomorrow you could write a second And you probably have a 1-minute talk in you or a 30-second joke, and you could probably do it a little better tomorrow. Big problems demand small solutions. What is the stepwise method to get from here to the Land of Oz? Step by step by step, because that's the only way you're going to get there. Each step isn't that frightening as long as you don't treat it like you're jumping off a cliff, because you're not. Very few people are watching you when you get started.