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Confidence: The surprising truth about how much you need and how to get it
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
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Description for Confidence: The surprising truth about how much you need and how to get it
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: VSC; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 330.
We're told that the key to success in life and business is confidence: believe in yourself, and the world is yours. But building confidence can be a challenging task. And, as leading psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic argues, confidence can actually get in the way of achievement; self-esteem is nothing without competence, the core skills, to back it up. Confidence is feeling capable. Competence is being capable. None of the figures whose success is put down to supreme self-belief, Barack Obama, Madonna, Muhammad Ali could have achieved their goals without the hard-won skills (and years of training) behind the confidence mask. ... Read more
We're told that the key to success in life and business is confidence: believe in yourself, and the world is yours. But building confidence can be a challenging task. And, as leading psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic argues, confidence can actually get in the way of achievement; self-esteem is nothing without competence, the core skills, to back it up. Confidence is feeling capable. Competence is being capable. None of the figures whose success is put down to supreme self-belief, Barack Obama, Madonna, Muhammad Ali could have achieved their goals without the hard-won skills (and years of training) behind the confidence mask. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781251973
SKU
V9781781251973
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99-99
About Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is professor of Business Psychology at University College London (UCL) and visiting professor at New York University. He is the author of six books and writes regular blogs for Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today. He lives in London and New York, and frequently appears in the media. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic has been named one of Thinkers50 next generation ... Read more
Reviews for Confidence: The surprising truth about how much you need and how to get it
Chamorro-Premuzic has rethought confidence - a fresh, more balanced, approach, presented in a well-researched, accessible, and, enjoyable format. I like this book: a lot
Robert Kelsey Confidence nails it - read this book and you will never look at the concept of self-esteem the same way again
Laura Vanderkam Persuasive ... fantastically sensible
Lucy Kellaway
Financial ... Read more
Robert Kelsey Confidence nails it - read this book and you will never look at the concept of self-esteem the same way again
Laura Vanderkam Persuasive ... fantastically sensible
Lucy Kellaway
Financial ... Read more