Neurological Confidence Building
Ever wondered how you get emotional, depressed, uncertain, confident, or suppressed!? Have you ever said the same phrase in a particular situation that your friend was about to say!? Do you think of a same joke over an affair your friend is thinking about, at the accurately same time!?All these sentiments and sensations are the collective response of Brain Neurons.
Brain neurons make certain patterns that result in a gestural or verbal response. That is how we make choices, speak words, think ahead, feel lonely and lost, feel confident or frightened or may be troubled sometimes. The pattern that is made while you are on the stage for the 100th time is a mishmash of your previous stage experiences. That is why you are not nervous for the 100th time, but the first time, because you brain cannot find possible pattern-match for the state of confidence needed to face a number of audience. A proficient public speaker might get exceedingly nervous and anxious while climbing a cliff for the first time, why? Because of total absence of patterned neurons for that site.
Result-estimation is also dependent upon confidence-estimation. Confidence is a personality trait, degree to what a decision would make sense. And confidence surely requires self-awareness. The combination of neurological configurations of self-awareness and confidence at a particular state make you anticipate the possible results.
Some smart research work has been carried out by Dr. Adam Kepecs at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory pronounces that:
Confidence estimation is definitely a fundamental and ubiquitous component of decision making.
He and his fellow research mates have profoundly studied Brain Architecture and Neurology of Decision Making. In his recent Brain Training conference at University of California, he stated:
Experiences ranging from best-to-good to bad-to-worst, directly affect the decision, resulting in either reward or regret.
So decision-making is of course dependent upon reward-based results and predication, depending upon the set of neurons that are needed to be rearranged a bit or more, entirely subject to previous experiences. But this is way different to undertaking blind risks. Otherwise, risk-estimation is also a neurological pattern, composed instantly depending upon one’s own experiences or may be other’s, and sometimes it depends upon the knowledge incubated. You will not eat an apple if you are having it for the first time until someone trusted tells you that it is OK to have it, or you take a risk of eating it because a pattern is being made in your brain telling you that you once had a peach, that looks like an apple, so as the peach was fine to have, apple may also be.
Let me take you to some frightening situations, when you are to face a very technical interview, when you are about to dive in deep water, when you are about to invest in stocks for the first time, and you are obviously frightened and terrified of failure, or embarrassment or being stopped. And you should be, because of total absence of past perfect experiences. So here are some magnificent tips that may come handy:
- Meet your mentor, or your best friend, who may boost your confidence by recalling his or your past successes. It is wisely said that “All he wanted to hear was GO AHEAD!”
- Play a game of chess, or score high in Fruit Ninja on your Ipad, or whatever game you think you are good at and more likely to win 99 of the times.
- Make confident gestures; make a body X, stretch your hand and legs wide open to make an X. The ideal situation is what I usually do. Whenever I go anywhere for job interview, I first excuse the receptionist and go to washroom, there in front of mirror I start doing Yes Yes Yes, that actually boosts my confidence to the maximum level, drawing patterns in my brain that makes me feel “Yes Man!”.
- Listen to your favorite music. Music rhymes directly effects the brain, and sets the mood according to the kind of tune you are listening to.
Understanding the brain architecture is never an easy fashion. We all cognize ourselves best, what our experiences are, what makes us feel better, where we want to skip, what we want to face, and all. So whenever you feel lost at some point, confused, disordered, chaotic or tangled, just make good art, good art with your brain patterns, draw your own, increase the variety of your experiences, so that one day when you are about to anticipate the possible results over a circumstance, you may have a huge diversity of colors to paint the best portrait.
