7 Ways to Train Your Brain to Go From Insecurity to Confidence
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 28.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
How do you react when you feel insecure?
What past experience boosted your confidence?
Today, Jay explores how you can break free from insecurity and build lasting confidence using science-backed techniques and practical mindset shifts. Jay opens the episode by addressing the invisible forces that keep us stuck in self-doubt, such as fear of failure, scarcity mindset, and negative self-talk. He explains that our brains are wired for survival, not confidence, which means that many of our insecurities stem from a natural instinct to protect ourselves from perceived threats.
Jay introduces seven powerful strategies for retraining the brain for confidence. First, he explains the importance of stopping the brain’s “threat detection system”, which makes us perceive challenges as dangers rather than opportunities. He then highlights unconscious competence, where we often fail to recognize the skills we’ve already mastered. By tapping into this, we can use our existing strengths as a foundation for greater self-assurance.
In this episode, you'll learn:
How to Overcome the Fear of Being Judged
How to Let Go of What No Longer Serves You
How to Take Control of Your Confidence
How to Shift from Self-Doubt to Self-Belief
How to Train Your Brain to Build Lasting Confidence
Confidence is not about being perfect; it’s about showing up, learning, and giving yourself the grace to evolve. You have everything within you to shift from doubt to self-trust.
With Love and Gratitude,
Jay Shetty
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What We Discuss:
00:00 Intro
01:09 Why Does One Feel Insecure?
06:55 #1: Learn How to Rate a Threat
10:47 #2: Harness Your Unconscious Competence
16:23 #3: Face Your Fear of Not Being Seen
20:25 #4: Understand the Power of Sunk-Cost Fallacy
22:52 #5: Reclaim Your Control of the Locus of Control
25:05 #6: Utilize The False Consensus Effect
26:11 #7: Break Free from Imposter Syndrome Using Cognitive Dissonance
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Jay Shetty and I'm thrilled to announce my podcast tour. |
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| 0:35.0 | Instead of panicking, you pause. |
| 0:41.8 | Take a breath and tell yourself, this is not a threat. |
| 0:49.2 | This is an opportunity. The number one health and wellness podcast. Jay Shetty. Jay Shetty. |
| 0:59.2 | The one, the only. Jay Shetty. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to On Purpose. I am so glad that we're here together. |
| 1:06.1 | Thank you so much for tuning in and trusting me with the next 30 minutes to guide you from insecurity to confidence. I'm sure there's so many of you this year that have so many dreams, so many goals, |
| 1:14.6 | so many aspirations. There are probably so many things that you want to achieve, learn, conquer, |
| 1:23.8 | grow, master, or even just experience. |
| 1:28.5 | And the thing that's standing in your way is your doubt, your insecurity, |
| 1:35.1 | your scarcity. |
| 1:37.3 | You might have the doubt. |
| 1:39.3 | I'm not good enough for that. |
| 1:41.3 | I'm not ready for that yet. |
| 1:43.7 | Or you might have the insecurity. I'm sure they'll give it to |
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