The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance
Nate Zinsser
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Confidence is a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously.”
“success in any field—be it sports, the arts, business, science, and certainly the military—requires both confidence AND competence.”
“it doesn’t matter how much “failure” you’ve experienced if you decide to respond to it constructively.”
“a sense of certainty—that feeling of having complete faith . . . about your ability—that you can do something or that you know something . . . which allows you to bypass conscious thought—so well you don’t have to think about it . . . and execute unconsciously—so you perform it automatically and instinctively.”
“a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously.”
“When the fear of making a mistake is in your mind, you become cautious instead of assertive, reserved instead of intense, overly analytic instead of natural and flowing.”
“There is a curious tendency in our modern world to overidentify with our shortcomings and even define ourselves by our mistakes, presumed limitations, and all the things we can’t yet do.”
“Put bluntly, it doesn’t matter how much “failure” you’ve experienced if you decide to respond to it constructively. And sometimes maybe “responding to it constructively” means you ignore it altogether.”
“Most of us were “socialized” by well-meaning teachers, coaches, and other authority figures who encouraged us to find our place in the world and comfortably fit in rather than build the self-confidence that would help us stand out.”
“Lieutenant Colonel Jonas Anazagasty couldn’t agree more. “Confidence,” he says, “isn’t the absence of doubt, it’s the way you respond to doubt.”
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Book Keywords:
ability, confidence, certainty, mastery
