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Outwork Your Self-Doubt

Alex Hormozi said that “you do not become confident from shouting affirmations in the mirror but by having an undeniable stack of proof that you are who you say who are. Outwork your self doubt.”

Just telling yourself that you are capable does not disprove the doubts you have about yourself. You need to couple these words with action.

By leaping into the activity you prove that you are capable, or at least capable of learning the skills to be successful, which can eradicate your self doubt.

In an episode of The Diary Of a CEO with Steven Bartlett, Hormozi stated that to move past his self doubt he makes unreasonable statements that if he does enough, will become true.

For example you may have just joined a sales team with no previous experience. If you then said that you will become the best salesperson in the whole company, that would be classed as an unreasonable statement.

However, if you shadow the best seller in the company and then do twice the volume of calls, it is not unreasonable to think that at worst you will be above average.

Dr Julie Smith suggests that avoidance feeds self doubt. By avoiding the activity you doubt yourself over, you give yourself more reason to believe you can’t do it.

Take the leap and learn the skills. Entrepreneur Tom Bilyeu states that self doubt can be a motivator behind learning these skills. It can highlight your weaknesses which you can use to progress.

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