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The Art of Influence, Experiencing Discomfort for Growth, How to Hack Confidence
Mario Peshev
January 21, 2023
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3 Ideas For Better Habits
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The Art of Priming People Into Accepting New Ideas
Motivational Business Speaker Phil M. Jones on how to precondition people to accept new ideas.
“When introducing a new idea, start with, “How open-minded are you?” This will naturally attract people toward the very thing that you’d like them to support. Everybody wants to be open-minded.”
2
Growth Begins at the End of Your Comfort Zone
Psychologist K. Anders Ericsson, on how discomfort fuels personal growth.
"With deliberate practice, however, the goal is not just to reach your potential but to build it, to make things possible that were not possible before. This requires challenging homeostasis—getting out of your comfort zone—and forcing your brain or your body to adapt."
Source: Peak: How to Master Almost Anything
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The Science Behind Boosting Confidence
Award-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman reflects on declarations of confidence vs. earned confidence.
“Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
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