Growth Mindset: Confidence!
I chose this video: 3 Tips to Boost Your Confidence. It's Ted-ED video and I chose it because confidence is something that has come up a lot this week for me. My best friend and I both went through a very intense promotional process. I was putting in for a quality assurance position within my department and he was testing to promote to lieutenant. The processes were crazy! We both tried to help each other out and boost each other's confidence throughout the week. These tips might have been helpful just a tad before!
At the beginning of the video, it describes where confidence comes from. I have always struggled with how to explain confidence other than just the simple line of believing in yourself. This video does a great job putting it down into words.
It then goes on to explain the three contributing factors to how much confidence a person has. It talks about genetics, social environment and then how the choices we make, the risks we take and how we react to situations all affect the outcomes of our confidence.
Then it goes into the tips on how to control the latter part of the contributions, what you control.
The first they call the quick fix. They say to picture your success when taking on a difficult task, listening to music with a lot of base, standing in a powerful pose (which I would feel ridiculous doing), or giving yourself a pep talk. I think that these are good tips for a quick confidence boost, but I find that they fade quickly. Or at least for me they do. Nerves take over and I often don't have time or energy to pep talk myself through really difficult tasks.
The next tip was to believe in your ability to improve. It basically said that if you have a fixed mindset, when you encounter something you're not good at, you'll quit. If you have a growth mindset, then you come across challenges and see it as an opportunity to improve the skill set that you have. This ultimately translates into being more successful and being better at things. I do think there is a lot of truth in this part of it. If you think you're not good at something and can't improve, there is no motivation to try again.
The last tip was practice failure. I almost didn't even want to listen to this part of it. I knew that I probably wasn't going to like what I heard. I'm of the mindset that failure is not an option. And when I do fail, it's not a fun thing for me. I thrive on being successful. However, it was good to know that people who fail and try again are more likely to respond to setbacks in a constructive way. I think that is an important skill to have so that it is not as debilitating when you do fail.
Overall, I think this video had some good points to it. Just will be a difficult thing to put into practice. I think all of these things I've heard before, but when it comes time to do them when I'm in a situation I need to be confident, it never works out the way I've planned.
At the beginning of the video, it describes where confidence comes from. I have always struggled with how to explain confidence other than just the simple line of believing in yourself. This video does a great job putting it down into words.
It then goes on to explain the three contributing factors to how much confidence a person has. It talks about genetics, social environment and then how the choices we make, the risks we take and how we react to situations all affect the outcomes of our confidence.
Then it goes into the tips on how to control the latter part of the contributions, what you control.
The first they call the quick fix. They say to picture your success when taking on a difficult task, listening to music with a lot of base, standing in a powerful pose (which I would feel ridiculous doing), or giving yourself a pep talk. I think that these are good tips for a quick confidence boost, but I find that they fade quickly. Or at least for me they do. Nerves take over and I often don't have time or energy to pep talk myself through really difficult tasks.
The next tip was to believe in your ability to improve. It basically said that if you have a fixed mindset, when you encounter something you're not good at, you'll quit. If you have a growth mindset, then you come across challenges and see it as an opportunity to improve the skill set that you have. This ultimately translates into being more successful and being better at things. I do think there is a lot of truth in this part of it. If you think you're not good at something and can't improve, there is no motivation to try again.
The last tip was practice failure. I almost didn't even want to listen to this part of it. I knew that I probably wasn't going to like what I heard. I'm of the mindset that failure is not an option. And when I do fail, it's not a fun thing for me. I thrive on being successful. However, it was good to know that people who fail and try again are more likely to respond to setbacks in a constructive way. I think that is an important skill to have so that it is not as debilitating when you do fail.
Overall, I think this video had some good points to it. Just will be a difficult thing to put into practice. I think all of these things I've heard before, but when it comes time to do them when I'm in a situation I need to be confident, it never works out the way I've planned.
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I think this picture works well. At the end of the video it says to just believe in yourself.
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