10+ Best Articles on Confidence

In an inspiring talk, educator and activist Brittany Packnett shares three ways to crack the code of confidence— and her dream for a world where revolutionary confidence helps turn our most ambitious…

It's important to learn how to feel confident rather than be confident because confidence isn't a trait but a changeable state of being.

Learning how to be confident is important in living a fulfilling life. Learn how to gain self-confidence with these 51 simple tips.

Can ‘confidence-whisperer’ Nate Zinsser help Jamie Waters boost his wavering self-belief?

Change is hard, but it’s possible. Use motivational interviewing techniques to build your confidence, and take the plunge

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The words we use can have a powerful effect on our moods and confidence. Here are some negative phrases to ditch if you want to think more positively, according to behavioral scientists, researchers…

When I worked as a therapist helping people with anxiety, I quickly learned that all my anxious clients really had two goals—one obvious, one less obvious: To feel less anxious. Obviously, they wanted…

«Attention is a mental muscle. And if you don’t exercise it, your attention will get pulled around instead of you being able to control it.»

Self-doubt is a pervasive and often paralyzing concern, and research has repeatedly shown that it impacts women more than men. So what makes high-achieving women power through their self-doubt?…

«Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.»

A new book aims to show why directives to "just be more confident!" are so harmful.

«It takes all the differences and empties them out of their meaning and appears that, say, being pregnant is as significant as being disabled.»

The past decade has seen a boom in ‘confidence culture’. But behind all the positive thinking, are more cynical forces are at work?

«Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey argued in a widely shared Harvard Business Review article called “Stop Telling Women They Have impostor Syndrome”,»

Some twists infuriate; others are brilliant. But they both use the surprise story as a self-exploding confidence game

Deep brain stimulation not only treats psychiatric disease – it changes the whole person, boosting confidence and openness

«They told us that following DBS they felt more certain about themselves in their transactions with the world. They trusted in their own abilities for dealing with the world.»

“Success” isn’t just having lots of money. Many people with lots of money have horribly unhappy and radically imbalanced lives.

Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men—and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence. Here's why, and what to do about it.