Confidence & Self-Worth - Building Authentic Confidence

Self-Mastery Become Your Best · Sep 17, 2026 · 9m

This episode explores authentic confidence as something built through action, competence, self-trust, and resilience rather than appearance or constant certainty. Drawing on Albert Bandura’s research on self-efficacy, Carol Dweck’s growth mindset, Jennifer Crocker’s work on contingent self-worth, Edward Deci and Richard Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory, and Kristin Neff’s research on self-compassion, it explains how confidence grows when people take manageable risks, learn from failure, keep promises to themselves, and become less dependent on external approval.

The episode also distinguishes…