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Confidence is built from doing

Belief that you can do something grows most from having done it.

Psychologists call it self-efficacy: your belief that you can carry out a particular thing. Of the ways it grows, the strongest is mastery experience — actually succeeding at it yourself.

Pep talks and watching others help a bit. A record of promises you kept helps more. That's why a small promise kept beats a big one broken.

Try this

Keep promises small enough to keep for a week, then raise them a little.

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Source

  • Proposed self-efficacy and identified performance accomplishments (mastery experiences) as its most dependable source.

    Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review, 84(2), 191–215.

A general finding about how people tend to work — not advice for your situation, and not a diagnosis.