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

by Katty Kay
April 2014
Beginner
256 pages
5h 31m
English
HarperCollins Publishers
Content preview from The Confidence Code - The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know

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IT’S NOT ENOUGH TO BE GOOD

Even before we found the door, we could hear, and feel, the pounding and thumping and barked direction echoing down the halls. We had come to the bowels of Washington, DC’s massive sports complex, the Verizon Center, on a hunt for raw confidence. We wanted to see it in action, to watch it on the basketball court, where, we surmised, confidence must be impervious to the turbulence of ordinary life, untroubled by gender battles, and stripped down to its essence. We were looking for that “aha” moment, a depiction of confidence so clear and compelling that it would shake up our female psychological GPS and shout, “This way. This is what your destination looks like. This is where you go.”

It was the opening practice of ...

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