The Confident Mind
by Nate Zinsser
West Point's performance psychologist on confidence as a skill: filtering experience, envisioning, affirming, and the pregame routine, used with cadets and professional athletes including Eli Manning. Specific and drill-based.
Read it if…
you perform under pressure and want a trainable system for confidence.
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Skip it if…
you want general self-esteem advice.
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Three things you will actually use
- Confidence is built from selectively remembered success.
- Rehearse the performance mentally in detail.
- Protect confidence from your own analysis.
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Start a nightly log of three things you did well, specifically.
Our verdict
Drill-based confidence.
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