Tag: Self-help book

My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪.5
Genre: Self help

This book was definitely not what I was expecting, but I also flew through it much faster than anticipated. It made me question my own definition of confidence and what actually makes someone confident. It starts by exploring confidence as a concept and then introduces activities to help achieve a more confident mindset.

The main themes throughout this book are creating a better relationship with fear and anxiety, clarifying and living in your values, learning how to handle negative thoughts and emotions, and implementing ‘confident’ actions, regardless of how you’re actually feeling. 

I found the exercises, particularly around negative thinking and fear, to be very helpful and easy to put into practice. I had never really considered the relationships between negative thoughts, fear, and confidence, but throughout the book it came to make a lot of sense to me that knowing how to effectively handle these negative emotions leaves space for feeling more confidence.

The concepts and exercises used in this book were really interesting and helpful, but also REALLY repetitive. By the end I was skimming because it felt like I was reading the same chapters over and over again. I would absolutely recommend this book, but it could have been about ⅔ as long and still covered all the content it needed to.

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