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Confidence follows competence

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Name the area rather than the feeling — not “I want to be confident” but “I want to be confident presenting to my team.” Then do ten minutes of the least glamorous practice that area contains: the slide read aloud, the scale, the one email drafted twice. Competence is built in units this size.

The trial lawyers I worked with looked like geniuses in that courtroom. What I saw was the months behind it — ten-hour days, every brief checked four times, arguments rehearsed and binned and rehearsed.

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