About ten years ago I was given a brilliant piece of advice…

If you don’t have confidence, fake it

The idea being that if you can’t be confident, at the very least you could pretend you’re confident. If success breeds success then confidence certainly breeds confidence. The more people can see from an outward perspective that you appear visibly confident in the work you do, the more confidence they have in you.

Eventually you’ll realise that you’re no longer faking it and you’re entirely confident in the work you do.

You’re not lying to yourself, you’re simply using other people’s confidence in yourself to build your own self-confidence. Nothing wrong with that, right?

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