Quieting the inner critic
The science of confidence and rethinking the inner voice.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Imposter Syndrome and Confidence
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
This module sets out where confidence really comes from, using Albert Bandura's four sources of self-efficacy and Baumeister and colleagues' review of self-esteem. It examines why confidence is mistaken for competence, the contested Dunning-Kruger effect, Moore and Healy's three forms of overconfidence and how an unsourced 60 per cent statistic travelled, so you can aim for calibrated rather than maximum confidence. This module explores how to notice, question and rewrite impostor thoughts that arrive sounding like facts. It covers Basima Tewfik's 2022 research on the interpersonal upside and personal cost of impostor thoughts, Aaron Beck's thinking traps, Albert Ellis's ABCDE model and Kristin Neff's three components of self-compassion, with practical tools including an evidence file and five prompts for talking back.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Explain Bandura's four sources of self-efficacy and why self-efficacy differs from self-esteem.
- Distinguish calibrated confidence from underconfidence and from Moore and Healy's three forms of overconfidence.
- Judge confidence claims and popular statistics critically, including the Dunning-Kruger effect and the 60 per cent figure.
- Describe what Tewfik's research found about impostor thoughts, and identify the thinking traps that feed them.
- Use Ellis's ABCDE model and Neff's three components of self-compassion to examine and reframe a harsh inner voice.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 04The Science of ConfidenceThis module sets out where confidence really comes from, using Albert Bandura's four sources of self-efficacy and Baumeister and colleagues' review of self-esteem. It examines why confidence is mistaken for competence, the contested Dunning-Kruger effect, Moore and Healy's three forms of overconfidence and how an unsourced 60 per cent statistic travelled, so you can aim for calibrated rather than maximum confidence.38 min
- 05Rethinking the Inner VoiceThis module explores how to notice, question and rewrite impostor thoughts that arrive sounding like facts. It covers Basima Tewfik's 2022 research on the interpersonal upside and personal cost of impostor thoughts, Aaron Beck's thinking traps, Albert Ellis's ABCDE model and Kristin Neff's three components of self-compassion, with practical tools including an evidence file and five prompts for talking back.36 min
Keep going.
Part of the Imposter Syndrome and Confidence topic, also sold whole as Owning your place.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Understanding self-doubt, 3 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- The whole topicExplore, Owning your place, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Leading on your own terms
