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On Confidence
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On Confidence

by The School of Life

Recommended by Peter Attia

Recommended by Peter Attia

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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Philosophy, and Psychology.

A thoughtprovoking essay that teaches us that confidence is not innate, but a skill that can be learnt.We spend vast amounts of time acquiring confidence in narrow technical fields: quadratic equations or bioengineering; economics or pole vaulting. But we overlook the primordial need to acquire a more free ranging variety of confidence one that ...

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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Philosophy, and Psychology.

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