The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know

Confidence is a measure of how much you believe in yourself. Evidence shows that’s distinct from how much you believe in your methods. You can be confident in your ability to achieve a goal in the future while maintaining the humility to question whether you have the right tools in the present.

Being successful is, after all, to a critical degree a matter of confidence: a faith that there is no reason why success would not be ours. It’s humbling to recognise just how many great achievements have been the result not of superior talent or technical know-how, but merely of that strange buoyancy of the soul we call confidence. And this sense

Self-confidence, genuine or not, triggers a submissive emotional response in women. Confidence is derived from actionable options or the knowledge of having created opportunities in the past. Women read confidence in a man as “having options.”

It helps determine whether we have the self-confidence to attempt the action.

After a Design Matters interview with the great writer Dani Shapiro, we started to talk about the role of confidence in success. She went on to state that she felt that confidence was highly overrated. I was instantly intrigued. She explained that she felt that most overly confident people were really annoying. And the most confident people were us