<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Confidence grows through honest self-presentation... > Confidence grows through honest self-presentation when a person learns to make real competence, real experience, and real aspiration visible without inflating any of them. The goal is not to perform certainty; it is to become accurately legible to oneself and to the people with whom meaningful work and relationship are possible. Confidence becomes durable when truth and presentation no longer require separate performances. **Source:** [[livestreams/Building Confidence Through Honest Self-Presentation - Workbook|Building Confidence Through Honest Self-Presentation]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Confidence grows through honest self-presentation when a person learns to make real competence, real experience, and real aspiration visible without inflating any of them. The goal is not to perform certainty; it is to become accurately legible to oneself and to the people with whom meaningful work and relationship are possible. Confidence becomes durable when truth and presentation no longer require separate performances.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-confidence-grows-honest-require-separate-performances ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->