{"id":19353,"date":"2022-05-19T19:56:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T23:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=19353"},"modified":"2022-05-23T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T14:30:30","slug":"im-really-insecure-and-wish-i-could-feel-more-confident-what-can-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/05\/19\/im-really-insecure-and-wish-i-could-feel-more-confident-what-can-i-do\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m really insecure and wish I could feel more confident. What can I do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0337-rotated-e1653004502435.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"379\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0337-rotated-e1653004502435.jpg\" alt=\"I'm really insecure and wish I could feel more confident. What can I do?\" class=\"wp-image-19352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0337-rotated-e1653004502435.jpg 379w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0337-rotated-e1653004502435-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0337-rotated-e1653004502435-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>I&#8217;m really insecure and wish I could feel more confident. What can I do?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry you&#8217;re feeling a lack of confidence; I&#8217;m sure you have many wonderful qualities, and a lack of confidence often means we accentuate our faults and overlook our virtues. It&#8217;s important to know that many people suffer from the same problem: it&#8217;s called &#8220;negativity bias,&#8221; and seems to be universal. But sometimes it governs too much of our lives. If you find it&#8217;s getting in the way of living a full life, I recommend counseling (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-counseling\">bit.ly\/BC-counseling<\/a>). Also, just look for ways to turn down the volume of the negative self-talk, and turn up the volume of the talk about your virtues and past successes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorry you&#8217;re feeling a lack of confidence; I&#8217;m sure you have many wonderful qualities, and a lack of confidence often means we accentuate our faults and overlook our virtues. It&#8217;s important to know that many people suffer from the same problem: it&#8217;s called &#8220;negativity bias,&#8221; and seems to be universal. But sometimes it governs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/05\/19\/im-really-insecure-and-wish-i-could-feel-more-confident-what-can-i-do\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m really insecure and wish I could feel more confident. What can I do?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19362,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353\/revisions\/19362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}