Personal Growth: Developing Fighting Spirit

Filed under Confidence, Emotional Management, Goals, Personal Development, Pursing Your Passion by on November 20, 2010 at 10:43 pm {no comments}

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
~ General Dwight Eisenhower

I was quite taken by this quote, as you might tell. I’m not the biggest dog in any fight. Heck, if there were a fight, I’d be somewhere else. In my earlier days, confidence was a central issue in my life. I wasn’t willing or able to interact and make friends, so I spent most of my childhood alone. It wasn’t until several years later that I found that almost everything we do can be a fight – as long as we are willing to be a part of it.

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Personal Development Singapore: Lonliness Disease?

Filed under Confidence, Personal Development, Reflections by on December 2, 2009 at 8:46 pm {no comments}

I just read this while waiting at the airport for my flight to Jakarta:

“Participants are 52 per cent more likely to be lonely if a person to whom they are directly connected (at one degree of separation) is lonely,” the authors write.

At two degrees of separation, they were 25 per cent more likely to feel lonely. At three degrees it was 15 per cent and at four degrees the effect disappeared. This pattern – what the authors term the “three degrees of influence rule of social contagion” – also appeared in the obesity, smoking and happiness studies.

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Personal Development Singapore: Social Confidence

Filed under Confidence, Personal Development by on November 29, 2009 at 5:47 am {2 comments}

Ah, the wonders of the internet. After getting some mails, I find that many are concerned with the issue of social interaction, so I decided to discuss confidence in a social setting.

According to Carl Jung, we have two sides of our character – the introvert and the extravert. If you take this knowledge into account, you will begin to understand how social confidence is built.

Introversion-oriented people tend to stay in smaller groups, often speaking one-on-one with others and focusing a lot on their work related topics because that is what preoccupies them the most. Extraversion-oriented people will tend to speak randomly about a good number of things and often end up covering a broad number of topic areas in a social interaction.

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Personal Development Singapore: Confidence

Filed under Confidence, Personal Development by on November 27, 2009 at 8:23 pm {one comment}

Just recently, a fairly senior manager of a local company approached me and asked me a very surprising question. He asked how he could become more confident in front of his customers.

Now, mind you, this is a manager who has had over 12 years’ experience in the same industry. You would have thought he had the capability to achieve this by now! However, confidence is not just about a skill – it’s a state or a feeling that you need to experience.

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