From the course: Managing Self-Doubt to Tackle Bigger Challenges

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The key driver behind self-doubt

The key driver behind self-doubt

- [Interviewer] I'd love to get your view then, when it comes to these fears or lack of confidence and self doubt, what are some of the key drivers behind it? Why is that there and what should be done about it? - [Interviewee] Yeah, well, I think that we all have a very strong safety instinct inside of us. And the safety instinct is a primal part of us that is a very deep part of our wiring to be on the lookout for any possible danger or threat and make sure that we avoid it or we fight it. And our fight or flight instinct is there to make sure that if we see any possible risk to our survival, we go into fight or flight mode and we make sure we're conquering in some way or we're avoiding. And what we know now is that in our contemporary lives, that same safety instinct gets misapplied to the emotional risks in our life. So the safety instinct that should be very conservative and over-reactive, if it's trying to ensure the…

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