Have you ever been told to be “more confident”?
That is such an interesting statement to tell someone.
In the book Courage Over Confidence, Dr. Mitchell Greene describes confidence as a simple, yet complex, concept. Confidence is typically used as this overarching feeling or portrayal, but what we might actually be talking about is our self-efficacy: the belief in ourselves to complete or execute a specific task.
Self-efficacy is built through these 4 core principles: positive talk from self or peers/coaches, successful past experiences, seeing other people succeed, and certain physiological states that make us feel prepared (Bandura, 1977).
Principles of self-efficacy:
Support from self or peers
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- Your peers and social support can offer a lot of courage to try to execute which will increase your self-efficacy/belief in self.
Successful past experiences
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- Seeing is believing: sometimes you can rely on your past experiences of completing a task or executing to help build courage to try to execute that same skill.
