Do you need more confidence? How about less? Here's how to find the right balance. Hold my beer!

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Links: • Hold my beer: People with maybe a little TOO much confidence

• Creativity by Elkhonon Goldberg

• Metacognitive confidence: A neuroscience approach

• We can increase confidence using artificial intelligence and brain imaging

• American Confidence Institute

• JoshShear.com: Confidence, what it is and how to get it

Something that many people moving on and up in their careers — or starting new businesses, raising their prices, etc. — suffer from is impostor syndrome. What is it?

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Links: • Impostor syndrome (Wikipedia)

• The reality of impostor syndrome

• Feel like a fraud?

• Carole Lieberman

• What is impostor syndrome?

• JKWD: In praise of compliments

• Valerie Young

• 5 different types of impostor syndrome

• Master Key Experience

• JoshShear.com: Impostor syndrome

HEY! Who needs a rabbit hole to go down?

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Links: • Naval Ravikant on Joe Rogan's podcast

• Agrippa's trilemma

• Pascal's triangle

• Falsifiability (Wikipedia)

• Snakehead fish

• JoshShear.com: Beliefs aren't facts

There's an adage that says, "Silence is golden." But why?

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Links: • Dr. Drew on Duncan Trussell's podcast

• Oak

• Remedy Float

• Long bouts of silence can help start growing new neurons

• Silence could be a treatment for Alzheimer's

• Pauses in music lead to calm

• Our brains are more active when not dealing with stimulus

• Finland has made solitude part of its tourism marketing plan

• Peter Gasca on input vs. output

• Thomas Oppong on working alone and collaboratively

• Calm

• Headspace

• Omvana

• Mindfold sleep mask

• Ear plugs

• JoshShear.com: Getting in your head

Teddy Roosevelt said, "Comparison is the thief of joy." Is that always true?

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Links: • Social comparison study by two Princeton researchers

• Jealousy spikes stress hormones

• Pride gives us a strong, positive emotional response

• The four-minute mile

• 12-year-old skateboarder lands a 1080-degree spin

• The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler

• JoshShear.com: On comparison

They say patience is a virtue. Where does it live in our brains? How do we get more of it?

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Links: • Stanford marshmallow delayed gratification study

• Part 1 of our happiness series

• Happiness chemicals

• Seratonin regulates patience and impulsivity

• Selective seratonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI)

• Human study on delayed gratification

• Default Mode Network

• Chade-Meng Tan, Joy on Demand,

• Oak

• JoshShear.com: Patience, success, confidence and happiness

Revolutions are edited. We discuss Thomas Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence and what self-evident might really mean.

We also read the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

Links: • Thomas Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence • U.S. Declaration of Independence • John Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" • Walter Isaacson's biography of Benjamin Franklin • JoshShear.com: Who's on your personal board of directors? • JoshShear.com: Self-evident, sacred and undeniable

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What if you stopped listening to what other people said you should do and just did stuff you wanted to do?

Links: • Feck Perfuction by James Victore • Shepard Fairey • No More Mr. Nice Guy by Robert A. Glover • JKWD: What drives you? • Cal Fussman's podcast • JoshShear.com: Do it for you

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What happens when we shut down our fantasies? When we stop believing in things we can't see? When we stop dancing?

Links: • Feck Perfuction by James Victore • JoshShear.com: Losing our shame • "Pan's Labyrinth" • "Hellboy" • Pirates of the Caribbean • Star Wars • "The Neverending Story" • JoshShear.com: Keep your fantasies alive, and why you should dance at weddings

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June 14 is Flag Day in the United States. Where did it come from? How do we celebrate?

We also read the Toast to the Flag.

Links: • WikiPedia: Flag Day • Flag etiquette • Toast to the Flag • JoshShear.com: Where does Flag Day come from?

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