The Confidence Code
The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know
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The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback and updated with a new introduction
Confidence. We want it. We need it. But it can be maddeningly enigmatic and out of reach. The authors of the New York Times bestseller Womenomics deconstruct this essential, elusive, and misunderstood quality and offer a blueprint for bringing more of it into our lives.
Is confidence hardwired into the DNA of a lucky few, or can anyone learn it? Is it best expressed by bravado, or is there another way to show confidence? Which is more important: confidence or competence? Why do so many women, even the most successful, struggle with feelings of self-doubt? Is there a secret to channeling our inner confidence and finally overcoming the imposter syndrome?
In The Confidence Code, journalists Katty Kay and Claire Shipman travel to the frontiers of neuroscience on a hunt for the confidence gene, exploring the power of brain plasticity and surprising new research on its roots in our brains. They visit the world’s leading psychologists who explain how we can all choose to become more confident simply by taking action and courting risk, and how those actions change our physical wiring. They interview women leaders from the worlds of politics, sports, the military, and the arts to learn how they have tapped into this elemental resource. They examine how a lack of confidence impacts our leadership, success, and fulfillment.
Ultimately, they argue, while confidence is partly influenced by genetics, it is not a fixed psychological state. That’s the good news. You won’t discover it by thinking positive thoughts or by telling yourself (or your children) that you are perfect as you are. You also won’t find it by simply squaring your shoulders and faking it. But it does require a choice for all women in leadership: less people pleasing and perfectionism and more action, risk taking, and fast failure.
Inspiring, insightful, and persuasive, The Confidence Code shows that by acting on our best instincts and by daring to be authentic, women can feel the transformative power of a life on confidence.
This insightful book offers an evidence-based toolkit for building the self-belief you deserve:
The Neuroscience of Confidence: Discover surprising new research on the 'confidence gene,' brain plasticity, and how simple actions can physically rewire your brain for self-assurance.Competence Isn't Enough: Learn why so many successful women struggle with feelings of self-doubt and why confidence—more than competence—is the key to getting ahead.Action Over Perfectionism: Trade people-pleasing and analysis paralysis for a new habit of action, risk-taking, and fast failure—the essential ingredients for a confident life.A Growth Mind-Set: Find out how to stop internalizing setbacks and start seeing challenges not as a reflection of your ability, but as an opportunity for progress.Lessons from Leaders: Gain inspiration from interviews with trailblazing women in politics, sports, and the military who reveal how they tapped into their own elemental confidence.
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Broadcast journalists Kay and Shipman (Womenomics) address the self-confidence gap between women and men, consulting a range of experts to determine what female confidence looks like and how it can be achieved. Their sources include WNBA players, successful entrepreneurs, and senior U.S. military, all of whom admit to facing crises in confidence. They visit a neuropsychologist studying rhesus monkeys to explore nature vs. nurture theories on anxiety and the brain's neurotransmitters that enhance or inhibit confidence. The authors discuss obstacles to self-assurance women face like "negative habitual thought," internalized pressure to conform to feminine stereotypes, and a "hormonal tendency to avoid risk." Studies cited suggest women are more critical of their own scientific skills and spatial reasoning, and speak up less in a group setting. Kay and Shipman provide a great blueprint for raising daughters by discouraging perfectionism, noting that perfectionism smothers achievement and is the enemy of confidence. For readers themselves, the authors include techniques for eliminating "negative automatic thoughts" with self-compassion and recommend "quick fixes" like meditation, correct posture, and healthy habits. All of this research, as well as the authors' own recounting of experiences with doubt in their professional lives, effectively builds into a comprehensive set of ingredients for the confident woman.
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Removing Self-Doubt
Authors Katty Kay and Claire Shipman tackle the question of what differentiates confidence levels between people, largely between men and women. It’s a loaded question but one worth exploring. Moreover, they offer a deep dive in how we can nurture confidence in the next generation without raising armipotent tyrants. The tips and tools for confidence building in younger people were insightful and run counterintuitive to what we may think are confidence building habits.
The gist of the books exploration comes down to how we maximize potential by removing self-doubt and pursuing mastery. Confidence is that spring board to action. To demonstrate this Kay & Shipman leverage exhaustive amounts of data from scientific studies, personality testing, and interviews to define and explore the roots of confidence. Though some of the confident person examples they hold up have proven to be the cringiest people in the public arena, their arguments still holds.
These role models in confidence all highlight a key point in their respective journeys; the cumulative effects of little wins. Katy & Shipman also demonstrate the effects nature and nurture have on our levels of confidence. An answer I won’t spoil for you here. In the end, the confidence code, as the authors define it, is simple. Think Less, Take Action, Be Authentic. That combined with the compound rewards of little steps reminded me a lot of Atomic Habits by James Clear. These two books pair well together.
Well written, informative & motivating
As a woman in a male dominated health profession, this book was the perfect mix of science/research, easy to read, and motivating. There are a ton of thought provoking sections I highlighted and look forward to re-reading and reflecting on those, again. I have already this book to a ton of women in my life!
I loved it.
I thought this book was amazing and I don’t understand the vitriol in some of these reviews. If you understand what causes a lack of confidence- like this book explains- you can fix it. Fixing the cause fixes the problem. It also gives long term and short term solutions in how to improve confidence. I liked the science part as well- it really explained the issues on a deeper level.