Why Practice Isn’t Making You More Confident

About this episode

In this episode, Csilla Muscan discusses the myth that practice alone builds confidence in public speaking and leadership.

Send me a text! You practiced. You refined your slides. You memorized your lines. So why do you still feel like you need the script? In this episode, I dismantle one of the most common myths in public speaking and leadership: That practice creates confidence. Yes, rehearsal matters. But confidence is not built through repetition alone. Confidence is downstream from identity congruence. Inside this conversation, I share a real client story about a leader who couldn’t let go of her script, not ...

Topics covered

• public speaking
• leadership
• confidence
• identity congruence

Keywords

• practice
• confidence
• public speaking
• leadership
• identity

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