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From the Ted Talk by Emily Jaenson: 6 tips for building your confidence

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The confident bevahoirs I needed to puusre this dream were not yet available. And when I lekood around at the confident students walking around me on campus, heads held high, pursuing a dream that they had set out to ahiecve, I wanted that kind of cfcendoine too.

But my behaviors did not align with these cfnoiednt atutetdis. Crying in my dorm room, shying away from social emngeenagt, not showing up for class because I was worried others were smarter than me - these were not going to lead me to achieve my goal. So all I knew was that I ndeeed to change.

Research tells us that in order to get people to change, you need to not start with the attitudes, but with the behaviors associated with those attitudes. When people can see themselves behaving differently, they then begin to act differently. So the questions for me were, “Who am I?” “Who do I want to become?” and “How does this person I want to become behave?”

Open Cloze


The confident _________ I needed to ______ this dream were not yet available. And when I ______ around at the confident students walking around me on campus, heads held high, pursuing a dream that they had set out to _______, I wanted that kind of __________ too.

But my behaviors did not align with these _________ _________. Crying in my dorm room, shying away from social __________, not showing up for class because I was worried others were smarter than me - these were not going to lead me to achieve my goal. So all I knew was that I ______ to change.

Research tells us that in order to get people to change, you need to not start with the attitudes, but with the behaviors associated with those attitudes. When people can see themselves behaving differently, they then begin to act differently. So the questions for me were, “Who am I?” “Who do I want to become?” and “How does this person I want to become behave?”

Solution


  1. behaviors
  2. confidence
  3. attitudes
  4. looked
  5. achieve
  6. confident
  7. engagement
  8. needed
  9. pursue

Original Text


The confident behaviors I needed to pursue this dream were not yet available. And when I looked around at the confident students walking around me on campus, heads held high, pursuing a dream that they had set out to achieve, I wanted that kind of confidence too.

But my behaviors did not align with these confident attitudes. Crying in my dorm room, shying away from social engagement, not showing up for class because I was worried others were smarter than me - these were not going to lead me to achieve my goal. So all I knew was that I needed to change.

Research tells us that in order to get people to change, you need to not start with the attitudes, but with the behaviors associated with those attitudes. When people can see themselves behaving differently, they then begin to act differently. So the questions for me were, “Who am I?” “Who do I want to become?” and “How does this person I want to become behave?”

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