Grow Your Mental Resilience to Stress Less About People’s Opinions
Confidence gets stronger with practice.
Next door to us lives a guy who is the embodiment of happy confidence. Whenever he walks past our windows, he’s singing out loud to his headphones. His voice is mostly out of tune, but that doesn’t matter; it’s his energy that catches my eye.
Unbeatable optimism is his signature vibe. He could be out there battling a hurricane and horizontal rain and still be singing. Day by day, lockdown or not, he refuses to give in and turn miserable.
Well, I love him. I always take a moment to listen when I hear his voice coming. He makes me smile. As long as the singing guy is still singing, things cannot be that bad.
And the best thing is, he doesn’t care what other people think. He doesn’t even care when they laugh. How does he manage to put his own contentment above what others think so effortlessly?
Playing the safe game
Most of us wouldn’t do it. You and I would most likely cave in to our natural fear of being judged, even if we just had the best news of our life and are dying for a victory dance in the grocery queue.
Most of us can’t always just be ourselves because we are conscious of how others see us. And…
