On Confidence

Despite the confidence we build over time in our field of work, we tend to overlook the primordial need for a more free ranging variety of confidence — one that can serve us in the course of our everyday lives: speaking to strangers at parties, asking someone to marry us, asking someone on the train to turn down their music, changing the world.

This is a guidebook to confidence, why we lack it, and how we can gain more if it in our lives. On Conf...