*✨🎄🎄Self-confidence is important if you want to win at life — no matter what you’re after, a lack of confidence will always hold you back.*
*♦️Research even shows that lack of self-confidence is associated with:*
*♦️Depression*
*loneliness and feeling left out*
*Lower academic achievement*
*Lower life satisfaction*
*I’ve researched self-confidence for years, and the most practical theory that I’ve found is* *something called* *‘confidence by competence.’*
*🪂In 1952, Bernice Milburn Moore published an article called Self-Confidence For Competence in the journal of Educational Leadership. In the article, she discusses self-confidence for teachers, but I’ve found it useful in all settings of life.*
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*🎄If you look up the definition of self-confidence, you always get more or less the same description. Moore describes it as “a trust in self, a faith in one’s ability to be able to meet situations as they may arise.”*
*But more importantly, she says:*
*🎄“Self-confidence without competence is of as little use as is competence without self-confidence.”*
*🌹✨It means this: Going to business school is competence. But using your business competence to lead a company is self-confidence plus competence. They are only useful when combined.*
