We’ve all heard the advice: Believe in yourself and you’ll come out ahead. A lack of confidence is often blamed for women’s failure to climb the corporate ladder. There are plenty of studies that back ...

William James famously wrote, “Everyone knows what attention is”. Yet cognitive scientists are still struggling to come up with a clear definition of attention. The same might be said of confidence.

I define confidence as: "How strongly you believe in your capabilities to learn new skills, perform at a certain level, attain a goal, or achieve your own definition of success." Confidence is the ...

Recent discussions on confidence, sparked by a personal family incident, have led to a deeper exploration of its neuroscientific basis. Experts define confidence as the willingness to act, influenced ...

Have you ever entered a race not feeling very confident about your ability to achieve your race goals that day? We’ve all been there, to be sure. And what likely happened was that your race didn’t go ...

Yesterday my six years old son was not able to perform on the stage for a said activity in the school and when he was telling same to his father, his father’s first reaction to the situation was “ohh… ...