Self-Confidence

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Шарль Пепен. Self-Confidence

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Cultivate Strong Ties

Go into Training

Listen to Yourself

Expose Yourself to Wonder

Decide

Get Your Hands Dirty

Swing into Action

Admire

Stay True to Your Desire

Trust the Mystery

Conclusion

Works Contributing to This Book

Index

About the Author

About the Publisher

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Because I only have to look at you to feel confidence. In myself. In life. And most of all in you.

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To probe the mystery of self-confidence, we will look to ancient wisdom and modern philosophers, among them Emerson, Nietzsche, and Bergson. These thinkers often approach the subject indirectly – it’s when they are thinking about freedom, audacity, or individuality that they talk about confidence. We’ll also look farther afield, to psychologists like Boris Cyrulnik and psychoanalysts like Jacques Lacan, and to the writings of researchers and teachers. We’ll also examine the experiences of athletes, fighter pilots, and emergency room doctors, the words of poets, and the visions of great mystics.

Self-confidence is so central to our existence that it can’t be encompassed by a single discipline. We won’t learn to understand how it works by studying it in a laboratory. Instead, we’ll have to observe it in real life, watch its birth and development, adopt its rhythm and follow its movement, its hesitations and swerves. We’ll have to run alongside it just as you run alongside a child – a child who almost falls, catches herself, and then takes off.

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