World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov on How to Build Confidence

‘What would it look like if I were really confident at this?’ Just by asking yourself the question, you’ll visualise yourself confidently approaching the task at hand. The switch has been flipped.

This study shows that simply by becoming your own hype team you can dramatically impact your own productivity. In the years since I read it, I’ve come up with a few specific ways you can do so. My favourite method involves what I call ‘flipping the confidence switch’; in other words, challenging yourself to behave as if you’re confident in your tas

There was an almost mystical correlation between work and achievement, with no direct tie between them. Perhaps I was benefiting from the chess equivalent of the placebo effect. Going into battle with what I believed were lethal weapons gave me confidence even though they went largely unused and wouldn’t in some cases have been effective.

Luckily, faking confidence is indistinguishable from actually being confident.

Focus more on the behavior.Sometimes, frankly, we're going to go into situationsand say I do not feel confident.But the question is, I really don't want people to know that,so what can I do that shows confidence, thathas me behave more confidently?And the idea is those emotions catch up with the behavior.When I give a presentation, for example,ther