Episode 21

Let's talk about what self confidence is and how to get more of it.

When we look at the model used in cognitive behavioural therapy and try to insert where self-confidence might fit into it, we could interpret it in a few ways. It could be a fact or circumstance that you are self confident. It could also sit in the result line, where you bring about the outcome or result of being self confident. The interpretation I want to focus on today is in classifying it as a feeling, and we’ll even refer to it as such. We say we feel confident or we don't feel confident. So if self-confidence is a feeling that we have about ourselves, we need to question 'Where does that feeling come from?