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WHY READ “SELF-CONFIDENCE"?
Self-Confidence is about being in charge, taking control of one’s life. It is not about how to win friends and influence others, but how to have that cache over oneself.
Self-Confidence is a mindset, not a ballyhooed coping mechanism. In other words, this is a different perspective on a familiar, but much misunderstood term, “self-confidence.”
Books that promise “power” or “influence” over others place the focus outside what is manageable, the self. If we have a center energized by a moral compass, we have power and influence because we are in charge of ourselves.
Science and technology have directed us away from the “essential self” with analytics, statistics and algorithms reducing the individual to a data collection to be incessantly probed and bombarded by subliminal stimuli.
We dance to the corporate mantra of “progress” at the expense of our internal governor of self-awareness, self-direction and self-control. We have lost our moral compass and our way, and for this, we are not happy campers.
“We have lost touch with touch.” We have alienated ourselves from ourselves as individuals in the most intimate ways. We have become an imitation of our authentic self at the heavy cost of stability and emotional survival.
Self-Confidence deals with this so that we can ride the good times and bad times with a perspective and understanding.
Self-Confidence enables us to make good choices, to understand ourselves and others with tolerance and compassion. We are ready to take charge, ready to lead.
With self-awareness, the cognitive mind is now married to the intuitive mind to solve problems with intuitive as well as rational wisdom.
Indeed, with Self-Confidence, we can change the daily headlines of print and electronic network news to an abundance of positive stories and experiences because we are far less conflicting.
The intuitive mind is prominent in Self-Confidence with its preference for cooperation to the competitive combative cognitive mind. With this, there is now room for our spiritual or non-quantitative side to emerge.
These are dangerous times. Yet, we go forward with tools designed for another time. But we have a protective shield. It is our reptilian brain that has been with us since the dawn of the Cro-Magnon man.
The reptilian brain is engaged when we have a feeling of apprehension when around certain people. Feelings calibrate a threatening situation long before the cognitive mind is engaged. Feelings trigger the prehensile mind in a split second to respond to a threatening situation. Feelings tell us: this is not right, this is not good, this is not what it seems, this is not for me.
Self-Confidence is designed to show a way to get beyond the “pathology of normalcy” to enjoy a meaningful and productive life.
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