Shade Zahrai

I am amazing.

I'm so excited to be here.

Yes, good point, because there are two levels.

So there's one level around how we feel and then there's one level around how we're perceived.

And sometimes they're not really congruent.

You might have someone who deeply inside is confident, but they have these behaviors that are undermining them.

And then that lowers perceived competence, how competent other people think you are.

And then on the flip side, you have people that don't necessarily feel fully confident, but they have learned how to exude confident behaviors, which has a positive impact on how they're perceived.

And then that can help them get to where they wanna go.

So we wanna talk about the two areas, right?

How do we feel more confident?

And then how do we look more confident?

But the first thing we need to do is deconstruct the term confidence.

Yeah, what do you think it means, Max?

Beautiful.

Beautiful.

So there's some interesting nuance to the term confidence, though, because when we ask people, what does confidence feel like?

They'll often refer to that feeling of readiness, that feeling of certainty.

I know I can do this.

And what's fascinating is that we're often waiting for that feeling before we do something, before we take action, before we say yes, before we put our hand up for that opportunity.