CHAPTER 2 WHY DO YOU WANT CONFIDENCE – AND WHY DO YOU NEED IT?

These might be obvious questions to you. You want confidence because having no confidence makes you miserable. You need confidence because having no confidence is stopping you from moving forward in your life. We hope that the above questions are already making you think about the difference between want and need. We're not trying to scramble your brain with philosophical discussions. If anything, we want to simplify how you view confidence so that it doesn't appear unattainable.

Confidence is one of those words that's bandied about all over the place, yet it means different things to different people. In Chapter 1 we went deep into the definitions. In this chapter we're moving ...

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