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

High self-esteem can best be understood as the integrated sum of self-confidence and self-respect.

The players they picked as more confident and those they picked as executing movement in a more fluid manner were also the players who had the winning hands. (Slepian

we’ve spent a long time developing the wrong kind of confidence.

For work success to lead to confidence, the job has to be challenging and it must require effort. It has to be done without too much help. And it cannot go well every single day. A long run of easy successes creates a sort of fragile confidence, the kind that is shattered when the first failure comes along. A more resilient confidence comes from su