đ„Weekly Mind Sweep | Confident Humility | Week 33
IL; RI (Itâs longer; read it)
Week 31: Curated Conversation: Word of August; Confident Humility. It turns out I was wrong.
Week 32: Mind Your Business: Confident Humility + Business. Mind your brain, manage your business.
*Week 33: Manage Your Mind: Word + Brain Science & Health #BrainGeek. OR - I changed my mind.
Week 34: Contemplation: What's On My Mind; My thoughts on it. By popular request, more Jamie Chapman!
Now, letâs sweep the brainâŠ
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Confident Humility | Manage Your Mind.
According to LearningRX, the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) plays a role in confidence. âThe OFC is involved in the cognitive process of decision-making and is also thought to play a significant role in emotion. It has extensive connections to the limbic system, which involves emotion and memory.â
In a referenced study from the same article, this sentence struck me:
âSocial prediction errors (differences between expected feedback and received feedback), as well as the changes in self-esteem resulting from them, were tied to parts of the brain that are important to learning and valuation. Changes in self-esteem are dependent not only on whether other people like you but on whether you expect to be liked.â
Oh, hello, expectation. Weâve talked about you before. Here you are again.
Read my blog on the Law of Expectation here.
The brain is malleable and teachable. While itâs not easy, itâs possible! Thinking positively activates our brain's reward center, resulting in better feelings. Confidence can be taught.
That's it. Think positive!
Wait, it's not that simple? Stress, emotion, lack of sleep, and more get in the way!
Need support here? Let me introduce you to Terri Hamilton of Apparent Connection. She supports ambitious women in positive thinking.
Here are a few tips to boost your confidence. The list is not complete, and daily practice is needed.
No hacks here.
Comparing is the enemy of confidence. By focusing on what someone has over you, you train your brain to constantly think about what you lack. Alternately, view them as a teacher.
Focus on actions. Become confident without needing to see results.
Insecurities are clues. Find the root. It may take work to identify this deeper issue. What do you need? Discover where it happens and where it doesn't. Is your need being met? Think about your feelings, thoughts, and actions to uncover the underlying issue. Your brain picks up on hints related to your insecurities over time if you think about them. Then you become hypersensitive. Since you've lived with it for so long, you can see it reflected in everything people say and do.
Their strengths are not your weaknesses. Around others, we usually look for shortfalls in ourselves. By doing this, your brain disregards your strengths. The brain learns from repetition. Embrace their strengths and learn!
It's beneficial to care what people think of you. Don't worry about what they think. Respect others, be confident you're putting your best foot forward, and move on if it isn't reciprocated. Focus on your intent. Treat others as you would like to be treated.
Action builds confidence. Not the result. By knowing the patterns, you can start taking action. Positive self-esteem cannot be determined by the outcomes or reactions of others.
Now that we have a better understanding of the brain and confidence, weâre on to humility.
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Humility: Let's talk about it.
A subconscious mind does not discern what is true, sensible, logical, or healthy. It simply records our impressions.
According to Mark Leary, intellectual humility is the recognition that one's beliefs might be wrong. We can grow closer to the truth when we admit our errors.
Think, âWhat am I missing??? Monitor your own confidence.
Humility's 3 main challenges:
Learning our cognitive blind spots is the key to acquiring more intellectual humility. Human minds are imperfect and prone to errors. Our ignorance can be invisible.
Even when we overcome that massive challenge and realize our mistakes, we need to be braver about saying, "I was wrong." These words deserve to be celebrated.
There is no perfect intellectual humility. We must choose our convictions carefully.
Our self-awareness will increase as we seek out opposing views and pay attention to evidence. Learning to discern information better is linked to cognitive reflection.
Learning how the brain works and how it perceives the world is both horrifying and humbling.
We often canât see â or even sense â what we donât know. Knowing that mistakes are natural and human is helpful.
âItâs bad to think of problems like this like a Rubikâs cube: a puzzle that has a neat and satisfying solution that you can put on your desk,â says Michael Lynch, a University of Connecticut philosophy professor. Instead, itâs a problem âyou can make progress at a moment in time, and make things better. And that we can do â that we can definitely do.â
We need convictions because âan apathetic electorate is no electorate at all,â he says. And we need humility because we need to listen to one another. Those two things will always be in tension.
Understand your mind.
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This week I challenge you to:
Consider:
The differences between expected feedback and received feedback.
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