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There’s a big difference between having talent and thinking you do. Offices worldwide are filled with people who are “faking it until they make it” and people who are actual experts, but are so ...

Self-confidence isn’t a magical trait bestowed on a lucky few; it’s a skill anyone can cultivate. Your daily habits shape how you view yourself—and that sense of self can ultimately determine the ...

As a leadership coach who specializes in working with highly successful women, one of the top challenges that my clients come to me with is the desire to amp up and cultivate lasting confidence. They ...

While it can feel like confidence is either something you have or don’t, there are ways to develop it over time. Selena Rezvani, author of “Quick Confidence: Be Authentic, Boost Connections, and Make ...

Confidence can feel like one of those things everyone else has figured out except you. Maybe you see someone walk into class, speak up without hesitation, or post something bold online and wonder, ...

I’ve never been particularly fond of polls and surveys. It’s not that I question the intent behind them or dismiss the insights they’re trying to reveal, but in a country of more than 40 million ...

One might hope that children's capacity for boredom would be matched by an appetite for all things new -- if only parenting were so easy. Trying new things is difficult for many children, whether a ...