Your brain doesn’t learn that you’re capable because you tell yourself you are. It learns because you do hard things, survive them, and slowly begin to trust yourself. That’s how confidence is built. Confidence isn’t something you think your way …
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The Courage to Stay When Everything Feels Unfamiliar
At 12 years old, I left my school on a council estate in England to attend a private school on a scholarship. I remember feeling completely out of place. The girls seemed to come from a different world — they …
Is Your Yes Really a Yes? How Your Nervous System Shapes Your Decisions
So often we think our yes or no comes from logic… but most of the time, it’s coming from your nervous system. You can have a “yes” that comes from sympathetic activation — a fight-or-flight surge — or a “yes” …