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Denninmi

(6,581 posts)
3. It's a learnable skill, and it has a positive feedback loop.
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 10:35 PM
Feb 2013

Last edited Sat Feb 16, 2013, 06:49 AM - Edit history (1)

I'm finding out that a lot of it is being brave enough to push yourself into uncomfortable, even frightening, situations, and staring them down until you win. It's that win that builds your self-confidence, and after a while, it becomes self-perpetuating as you learn that this is what you need to do.

Edited to add this link to a thread from last week, where I faced exactly this kind of self-doubt, lack of confidence, fearful moment. And I thought about bolting, but I didn't, and now I'm glad I didn't. Read my three posts from a week ago.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11146595

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