Julie Solomon

All the studies show confidence is probably one of the most powerful things in the workplace, correlated to how happy you are, how much you get paid, how fast you get promoted, how much people like you, people like leaders that are more confident, all of these things.

I think the reason it's so powerful is that value, the value of a person or a worker or the work itself is a story.

Like, it's just a story.

And confidence is a story.

I mean, the reason women get paid less, the reason that Black women get paid less and Black men get paid less, it's just a story of how much their work is worth, which is also part of why it's so painful when you realize you're getting paid less.

And confidence is also a story.

And if your story is like, I am amazing.

And everyone's like, wow, he's amazing.

I mean, there's also like arrogance, which is a little different.

But true confidence is just a deep knowing of self-worth.

And that is infectious.

People believe you.

One big thing you can do is to take action.

Confident people act on people who aren't confident waffles.

So speak up in the meeting, ask for a raise, take action.

That is something that is very confident.

Another thing you can do is aim a little higher than what your goal is.

So confident people

expect a lot for themselves.

So you can pretend that you're confident by asking for more than you think you can get as far as resources, money, time off, deadlines, space, like ask for something that feels nuts to you.