How Lack of Confidence Affects Your Success

We call it lack of confidence, but I want to repeat again, a certain amount of self-doubt, of self-reflection, of being aware of your weaknesses is part of the game of life. And we have to deal with it. It’s part of living in this human body. We should embrace it, feel it and connect it to this so-called lack of confidence, but doing things anyway. When I was young I felt there was a lack of confidence, I felt shame, I felt guilt. So I thought, ‘Oh, I have to go through a lot of therapy, I have to work on this to fix this.’ And nowadays I think, no, there was nothing to fix. I feel it, I am aware of it, but I develop the courage, I am willing to leave my comfort zone and do my things anyway. Now it’s kind of normal to have this. We know a lot of famous artists and scientists who are dealing with a lack of confidence with imposter syndrome. So I think seem to be normal, but I think part of it is caused by our education. As a child, you get judged early, they try to make you fit into the system. So the question also for me in my coaching is not how do I make this child or this person, this woman fit into the system.