A speaker shares his formula for building confidence: deliberately act confident even when terrified, and your brain will catch up. He's used this approach before judging, serving on juries, and speaking publicly, starting at just 1% genuine confidence and letting the projection do the work.
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How to be more confident while speaking to someone, while addressing a large audience? I get this asked often. Well, my formula that has worked for me every single time is fake it till you make it. Honestly, I have been shit scared when I walked up to those stages as a judge, as a jury, as a speaker, and I knew that I have to maintain a calm composure. So I do I told my mind that I am confident, and despite my insides screaming out, I would walk up that stage and I will talk from that stage. So this is how our mind works. Even if you're 1% confident and you are able to establish that, mind latches on to that and makes you more confident in that time. So that's how you start becoming confident.