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10 Ways to Build Your Confidence at Work

By John Brandon — 2014

Here are ten habits to develop to gain more confidence at work.

Read on www.inc.com

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Don’t Take It Personally: The Art of Dealing with Rejection

Who hasn’t felt the sting of rejection? It doesn’t take much for your feelings to get hurt—a look or a tone of voice or certain words can set you ruminating for hours on what that person meant. An unreturned phone call or a disappointing setback can really throw you off your center.

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Elayne Savage
2025
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When we take rejection as proof of our inadequacies, it’s hard to allow ourselves to risk being truly seen again. . . . The problem arises when shame kicks in and we aren’t able to view our flaws, limitations, and vulnerabilities in a patient, self-loving way.

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Harriet Lerner
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.

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C. S. Lewis
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Headspace | Meditation Tips | Find Your Natural Confidence

When we force ourselves to muster up confidence, it never really feels authentic. Meditation can help you find a quieter, freer kind of confidence. And with a bit of practice, it will just start to come naturally. Learn to meditate in ten minutes a day with the Headspace app.

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2019
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Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

It is the rise from falling that Brown takes as her subject in Rising Strong.

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Brené Brown
2025
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How to Be Confident

The fastest route to confidence is to stop being so attached to one’s dignity and seriousness; and plainly admit that one is—of course—an idiot. We all are.

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2017
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Brené Brown: Why Your Critics Aren’t the Ones Who Count

Author and vulnerability researcher Brené Brown shows us how to deal with the critics and our own self-doubt by refusing to “armor up” and shut ourselves off. “Not caring what people think,” she says, “is its own kind of hustle.”

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Brené Brown
2013
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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly.

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Brené Brown
2025
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The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You’re Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate

The key problem in relationships, particularly over time, is that people begin to lose their voice.

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Harriet Lerner
2002
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