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You Feel Broadly Adequate • 73

I worry that I’m fooling everybody as I try to hide the insecure jerk
and half-performing idiot that I sometimes feel I am.

Bolster Your Self-confidence with
Self-assessment

To bolster your confidence at this moment, do some honest self-attitude
assessment of where you are now. In other words, appreciate your current
status. Think about what you’re especially good at now and what you have
going on for yourself. Everybody has a lot more than they think about on
a regular basis. What’s painfully obvious to you is a blazing revelation to
someone else. Write every ability that you’re proud of about yourself: car
mechanics, computer games, writing reports, public speaking, teaching,
following advice, getting respect from your peers, saving money, drawing,
clipping coupons, cooking, children rearing, dog training, drawing cari-
catures, singing, cleaning up messes, identifying bird species, gardening,
telling a story to illustrate a point, constructing an e-mail, debating a posi-
tion, holding to your convictions, keeping your word, telling the truth,
good posture, self-disciplined, organized, persistent, easy to talk to, deal
well one on one, good phone voice, good grammar, good taste, good judg-
ment, good intuition, able to multitask successfully, effective, technically
brilliant, hard worker, and dependable. Seriously, jot down your list right
now. Do it in the margin of this book (unless it’s from the library), and
write small so that you can get a lot on the page. Keep adding to it as more
thoughts come to mind.
Review your life and how (given what you were given) you have a
pretty respectable, if not stellar, education, have gotten jobs in suitable
as well as excellent companies, and have done good, if not spectacular,
work in situations you’ve been in.
Bring to mind past positive feedback, compliments, and anything
else you take pride in.
Add other things about you, such as good parents/family/friends
around you, being in relatively good physical shape and good health, and
being lucky enough to have been born in a free country—or immigrated
to a free country.