Ready for insight #2 on understanding confidence? Here we go…
All three aspects of self-confidence are rooted in judgements – so the best way to work on your confidence is to work on these judgements. Challenging and shifting your judgements will help you to shift your confidence.
Certainty is about knowing something for sure, and can be based on evidence, facts, experience, or intuition.
To do this, you need to address:
- How certain you are in your judgements (e.g. on a scale of 1-10)
- To what extent do you act on your judgements
How much do you trust these judgements? What evidence is the judgement based on? What alternative judgements could you make? How might someone else judge it?
To what extent does this judgement flow through into your behaviour? Does it shape what you do? Is your behaviour consistent with your judgement, or not? Do you ignore them / pay too much attention to them?
Here are a few examples…
🤔 You might form the judgement that you are bad at public speaking, but you’ve only tried it once.
🤔 You might believe that you’re no good with a particular technology, before you’ve never tried to learn about it.
🤔 You might assess that you are good at meeting new people, but rarely actually do it.
By understanding the role of judgement certainty, you are better able to test how much you trust your own assessments, challenge them, re-frame them if necessary, and make choices about how you act on them. By being confident in your self-assessments you can have a better understanding of yourself and boost your self-confidence.
Fulfilling work 