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S65E9 Reflecting on confidence · Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking

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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Walk the Pod, your daily walking
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  Speaker 1: show where I take my podcast for a walk because
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a dog. You're very welcome along. This
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  Speaker 1: is episode 9, series 65 of the Daily Walking Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: It tempts you away from your desk to walk in
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  Speaker 1: nature for just 10 minutes. This series we've been talking
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  Speaker 1: about confidence and today summing up everything we've learned and
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to what might be next.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Walk the Pod.
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  Speaker 1: Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what
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  Speaker 1: is known as park life. Now, I said yesterday that
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  Speaker 1: that was Damon Alban talking on the beginning of the
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  Speaker 1: song Park Life by Blur, because in my mind it
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  Speaker 1: must be, mustn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Without really thinking too much about it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you to everybody who sent me corrections, clarifications and
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  Speaker 1: closure points to say it wasn't Damon Alban, it was
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  Speaker 1: Phil Daniels with the introduction to that song. So my apologies.
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  Speaker 1: So just as I was talking about failure and how
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  Speaker 1: important it is just to do things and not worry
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  Speaker 1: too much about whether we have to iterate or whether
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  Speaker 1: they fail or not, I was in fact setting myself
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  Speaker 1: up for a fall without realising.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for.
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  Speaker 1: All your thoughts about confidence this series. We have discussed
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  Speaker 1: just a few angles on the topic. I don't feel
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  Speaker 1: like we've made huge inroads into it, but a few
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  Speaker 1: things that have stood out to me have been that
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about how confidence can come with experience, can
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  Speaker 1: be evidence-based. We can build a body of data to
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  Speaker 1: support our opinions and our assertions, and confidence can come
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  Speaker 1: through that evidence.
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  Speaker 2: Or we can.
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  Speaker 1: Build confidence in one area and then hope to bring
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  Speaker 1: a kernel of confidence over.
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  Speaker 2: To a new area.
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  Speaker 1: And I think my own personal conclusion is that it
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  Speaker 1: certainly isn't universal. I can't be confident about everything, nor.
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  Speaker 2: Should I be.
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  Speaker 1: And that perhaps kind of touches on the idea of
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  Speaker 1: Possibly we have more confidence about something before we start
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  Speaker 1: actually looking into it. And then once we start really
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  Speaker 1: engaging with a new skill or a new topic that
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to learn about, we realize how much we
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  Speaker 1: don't know. And at that point, our confidence actually goes down.
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  Speaker 1: So starting to engage with a new thing actually might
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  Speaker 1: cause a dip in our confidence before we start building
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  Speaker 1: those skills or knowledge up. And I've certainly found that
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  Speaker 1: in my own experience with learning all kinds of languages, skills, performance, ability.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very confident about things when I start. I'm really
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  Speaker 1: enthusiastic in a confident way that I will be able
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  Speaker 1: to work out how to do them. Then I start
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  Speaker 1: finding out what it would take to be able to
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  Speaker 1: do them.
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  Speaker 2: Then I suffer a huge hit to my confidence. And
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  Speaker 2: then if I.
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  Speaker 1: persevere with it my confidence kind of builds up slowly
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  Speaker 1: but it takes a very long time actually the the
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  Speaker 1: building out of the ditch the building of the path
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  Speaker 1: out of the ditch is rather.
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  Speaker 2: Slow and long.
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  Speaker 1: But um it's been a really interesting discussion so thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for every contribution that has come in
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  Speaker 1: in whatever format to the series i really really appreciate.
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  Speaker 2: It What's going to come next? Well, I don't know exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I know there will be more series of Walk the
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  Speaker 1: Pod in 2027.
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  Speaker 2: At least six.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say we've done six this year.
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  Speaker 2: There might be another one. I just don't know. Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: But very grateful to you for your walking with me
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  Speaker 1: this year. And I'll certainly be bringing bonus episodes to
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  Speaker 1: the community on Patreon. And I'll be thanking the community
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  Speaker 1: on Patreon tomorrow as well. And if you would like
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  Speaker 1: to know what that's all about, you can find out
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  Speaker 1: more by going to patreon.com forward slash Rachel Wheelie or
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  Speaker 1: just walkthepod.com and you'll find a link there to take
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  Speaker 1: you through to join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime Walk Club.
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  Speaker 1: What can I see directly in front of me? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually walking on Imperial College London South Kensington campus
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  Speaker 1: this lunchtime because I have just a small amount of
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  Speaker 1: time to record the pod between commitments at work. And
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  Speaker 1: tonight we have the Imperial Lates. Nearly 2,500 people are
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  Speaker 1: registered to come, find out more about robots at Imperial College,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll be hosting a discussion, What My Robot Taught
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  Speaker 1: Me About Being Human, which I'm very much looking forward to,
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  Speaker 1: interviewing a professor and two researchers from Imperial's Morph Lab.
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  Speaker 1: Lots and lots of people around this lunchtime. Rather a
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  Speaker 1: grey sky. It looks like it's going to rain but
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  Speaker 1: I've checked the weather forecast and it is not going
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  Speaker 1: to rain today. It's just going to be cloudy. We've
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  Speaker 1: got some rather grumbly clouds in the sky hanging ominously overhead.
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  Speaker 1: And I can see the tops of some trees over
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  Speaker 1: the college buildings. And some multicoloured banners which are hanging
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  Speaker 1: from lampposts which are rather jolly. And some rather optimistic
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  Speaker 1: palm trees which have been planted in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a sort of cafe area here with chairs and tables
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  Speaker 1: and hundreds of students sat around eating their lunch. The
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  Speaker 1: air temperature is definitely dropping now. We're approaching late October
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  Speaker 1: in 2026, if you're listening to this in the future.
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  Speaker 1: And it's definitely starting to feel colder. The people sat
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  Speaker 1: around me are in puffy jackets. Sometimes with hoodies underneath.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to keep warm. Buying delicious looking food and covering
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  Speaker 1: it with chilli sauce. Because if we can't feel warm
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  Speaker 1: through our clothing, we'll have to feel warm through spicy
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  Speaker 1: condiments instead.
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  Speaker 2: Both approaches are valid, dear friends.
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  Speaker 1: And I've really enjoyed the contributions to our various walking
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  Speaker 1: games this week. At Walk the Pod we play lots
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  Speaker 1: of quest games, walking quests. You can quest for colours,
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  Speaker 1: letters of the alphabet, numbers, shapes. And it's very simple.
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  Speaker 1: We just ask you to keep your eyes peeled for
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  Speaker 1: things as you go on your daily walk. And if
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  Speaker 1: you're on your walk, when you see the next number
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  Speaker 1: in the sequence, or the next letter in the sequence,
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  Speaker 1: or the color that we're looking for this week, you
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  Speaker 1: just take a picture of it and put it on
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  Speaker 1: our Discord server and reap emoji rewards.
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  Speaker 2: What does emoji rewards mean?
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  Speaker 1: It means that if it's, say it's, for example, a
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  Speaker 1: yellow week in Color Quest, which it is, and you
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  Speaker 1: post a picture of something yellow from your walk.
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  Speaker 1: We will mark it with a yellow heart to say that.
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  Speaker 2: That is yellow. Good job.
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  Speaker 1: And if that helps you to get out of the
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  Speaker 1: door for your daily walk, you might find it a
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  Speaker 1: helpful way to sort of gamify your walking slightly.
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  Speaker 2: Or you might think it's silly.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay. It's okay if you're thinking, yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have time for that. Thank you for walking with me,
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  Speaker 1: dear friends. This has been the ninth episode of Series 65,
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  Speaker 1: so we have one left coming to you tomorrow lunchtime.
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  Speaker 1: And that'll be the end of the series. Take care
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  Speaker 1: of your beautiful mind, yourselves, and each other. And I
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  Speaker 1: look forward to bringing you a walk from the woods
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow lunchtime, for I will be working from home and
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  Speaker 1: walking in.
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  Speaker 2: The woods, as I love to do, as often as possible.
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  Speaker 1: I look forward to speaking to you then.