From the course: Coping with Impostor Syndrome to Build Career Confidence
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Finding your confidence in high-pressure situations
From the course: Coping with Impostor Syndrome to Build Career Confidence
Finding your confidence in high-pressure situations
- As a high achiever, you're going to find yourself feeling the heat of high pressure situations on a pretty regular basis throughout the course of your career. So the advice to simply calm down or be more confident or just embrace imperfection can feel counterproductive to someone who especially prides themselves on delivering results in demanding situations. So instead, it can be helpful to remind yourself of why the stakes feel so high. There are typically three main components to being under a lot of pressure. Importance, meaning the work at hand matters a lot to you, uncertainty, the outcome is not something you have 100% control over, and volume, there's just a lot coming at you and not enough time to handle it all. In his new book "The Power of Pressure," author Dane Jensen suggests that we don't need to worry about avoiding high-pressure situations or denying their power, but rather we need to become more…
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