From the course: Building Self-Confidence

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Manage your context

Manage your context

From the course: Building Self-Confidence

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Manage your context

- Understanding self-confidence requires you to think about how you interact with your environment every day. Think about your major social interactions at work. The truth is that you bring as much positive mental energy to the office as you can, but then during the day, some people improve how you feel, and well, others don't, so let's think about how people affect you. Here's what I want you to do. Make a list of the people you see the most, regularly, every week. Now, split that group into two by creating a net positive group and a net negative group. The positive list is full of people who tend to be congenial and helpful, while the other list is populated by people who cause you excessive stress due to negative chemistry or behaviors. Now, I'm not naive, I know you can't completely control who you see and when, however, when you scrutinize your work, the meetings and all the other interactions, you're likely to find opportunities to increase the time you spend with the positive…

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