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Gyms Create Self-Confidence

Self-confidence creates exponential success over time

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Dan Uyemura
Dec 17, 2024
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The number one factor in self-made success is self-confidence. Self confidence is defined as “a feeling of trust in one's abilities, qualities, and judgment.”

The reason self-confidence is the number one factor of success is because no one else in the world will believe in you. So if not you - who?

But how do people become self-confident? Contrary to most popular belief, it’s not from past success.

In fact, it’s widely know that self-confidence is built from a very controlled scenario:

  1. Be in a situation you don’t know the outcome of.

  2. Struggle.

  3. Finish the job, regardless of the outcome (success or fail)

Self-confidence is created from the sheer act of doing hard things - especially things you don’t want to do - and getting the job done.

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Self-Confidence: 1880 Style

In years past, the only way to fulfill this formula generally meant a life or death situation.

Do you think it’s a coincidence that lore tells us of the old gunslingers as some of the most confident people around? There’s no greater alignment to the recipe for developing self-confidence than a duel or gunfight.

In today’s day we don’t have to outrun bears or out-duel Wyatt Earp to gain self confidence. It’s simply a matter of taking a risk and seeing the job to completion.

You can do this at work, in school, or with your partner.

The only downside - each of those do carry some risk to failing the complete the job to satisfaction.

Want Growth? Join a Gym.

The safest place to guarantee your self-confidence growth - a gym. Especially one where you are assigned a workout and a coach is there to see it through with you.

You don’t get to choose what you have to do. It’s going to be hard, and you will struggle.. and you will finish.

This is the fastest and most direct line to self-confidence that carries nothing but upside for you.

  • Finish the workout poorly? Who cares - you got fitter.

  • Finish the workout amazingly? No one else is really impressed but you got fitter.

  • Didn’t finish the workout? Who cares - you started it and struggled. Maybe today that’s all your success marker needs to be.

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