Confidence grows by doing things while scared. The speaker volunteers to speak publicly despite racing heart and shaking, then discovers the fear fades once they start. Each time you push through, the next attempt feels less terrifying.
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There are a lot of times I do things that are very scary. I'm going to talk about like public speaking, for example. I usually use that as an example. Someone is inviting me to come and get the mic and come and speak on something. I'm literally like, my heart is literally beating. I'm literally high scared, extremely nervous, shaky, shaky. But craziest thing about it is that like, first of all, I'll probably be the one to first volunteer. Okay, let me come at this in some cases regardless. And I'll still walk, collect it, and probably once I start, because I mean the old Nervousness sort of goes. So like my confidence is more of like do it afraid. I think that's the best way. Being able to like do a lot of things afraid, like take a lot of risk that over time I'm sort of like, okay, yes, because I've done that, I can now like do this. Regardless of the fact that you were scared, you did this. That same thing, you won't be scared to do it again.