Happy High Status: How to Be Effortlessly Confident

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I find this fascinating: that being yourself on camera is more intimidating than being Bella Baxter in Poor Things. She is the BEST at bringing warmth, kindness and encouragement to the page, and in Happy High Status she’s succeeded in making me feel that I’m enough and that my confidence will come from within me, from what is already there, so that I don’t have to make sweeping changes to ‘be’ confident.

Whilst there are many specific reasons why a whole populace can come under strain, I think the effects of this “turning away” are increasingly universal. Recently finished Happy High Status (in record time) and what a wonderful message Viv Groskop is sharing with us.

I’ve been using the following quote from Maya Angelou a lot lately and I closed with it yesterday: “People will never remember what you said. It is a sense of self-assurance that allows individuals to face challenges, take risks, and tackle difficult situations without being overly affected by self-doubt or fear of failure. And my answer is always that you don’t - motivation isn’t a tangible, definable thing, and this book makes the same point about confidence. A survey showed that receiving a compliment based on appearance can significantly affect self-perceived attractiveness. In episode 1 I’m talking to actress Patsy Palmer about public persona versus inner critic: the business we all have to face in life — of navigating the gap between other people’s perception of us (capable, confident, in charge) and our perception of ourselves (often feeling that we are not remotely capable, confident or in charge).

She is the host of the podcast How To Own the Room, with over 2 million downloads and guests including Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, Margaret Atwood, Professor Mary Beard, Nigella Lawson and very occasionally a man like Brian Cox (Succession’s Logan Roy).Do you realize that conveying the profoundness of your love would demand centuries to describe its limitless enormity? The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.