Mick Hunt breaks workplace confidence into two parts: believing you have the skills (learnable through books and podcasts) and believing in yourself (feeling secure about your job and future). When you're happy at work and respect others, confidence matters more than technical ability.
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If we believed in ourselves and didn't have to feel like we needed to prove ourselves, or didn't feel that we had to hold back our thoughts and beliefs because we're worried about consequences. If we went into work each and every single day knowing that we'd be okay, that we'd find another job, I would love to work in an environment like that. Competence is two main things, really. It's a belief in your own skills, which is just okay. You can go read a book, listen to a podcast, which a lot of people do not do, especially leaders. When they doubt how great they are at leadership or they have a difficult employee, they don't just type into their podcast app how to have a difficult conversation, which is sometimes the easiest trick. But it's belief in your skills, and then belief in. In yourself. And belief in yourself is probably the trump card. I mean, if people are happy at work and they believe in themselves and generally they respect others, like, I don't care how good you are at anything. Like, if you're happy, go for it.