TED英语演讲：如何成为一个自信的人

TED英语演讲：如何成为一个自信的人
多少人一碰到失败就放弃了?多少人一遇 到困难就退缩了?不管
机遇如何，困难多大，哪怕身处逆境，相信自己可以做到，这就是自
信。 如何成为一个自信的人?下面是小编为大家收集关于TED英语演
讲：如何成为一个自信的人，欢迎借鉴 参考。
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自信的定义：相信自己有在任何困难的情况下完成任务的能力。
自信就是相信自己能够做到。
自信是一种技能，是能够培育出来的。
如何提升自信：
1、重复重复再重复。当你 的技能通过不断刻意练习而变得炉火
纯青之后，就容易获得自信。在反复练习的过程中，你遇到的困难是
如何在失败后不气馁，如何在平台期时不急躁。
实力是自信的资本。对于自己做得好的事 情，我们往往会更有自
信。所以，努力提高自己的实力会让自己更自信。
2、自我激励。在和自己对话的时候用积极正面的想法替换掉之
前消极的想法。
已经有太 多人认为我们做不到，认为我们不够好了，为什么我们
自己也要那么想呢?要相信我是自己生活的主宰。 如果自己都不相信，
又会有谁相信呢?
3、远离那些会拖你后腿的人。

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或许我们身边总是不乏这样的人，在我们追逐梦想的时候，总是
冷嘲热讽。我们需要坚持梦想，不去听那些人的声音，等你爬的更高，
那些声音也就听不到了。我们要 多和志同道合、可以互相鼓励的人在
一起。
4、给自己写自夸信，记录生命中辉煌的时刻。
写下自己的成就事件，当你意志消沉的时候就拿出来看看，就会
发现其实自己也挺厉害的呢。
5、改变自己的解读方式。多做正面、积极的解读。
如何帮助别人建立自信：恰当地夸赞别人做得好的地方，把注意
力放在别人的优点上面。
| 英文演讲稿 |
In my past life as a soccer coach, once you won a national
championship, everyone wants to come play for you.
Really not true. Once you paid them $$25,000 a year in
scholarships, everybody wants to come play for you. And parents
would always come to me and they’d say: “Okay, my son or my
daughter wants to come play at your university, what is it that
we have to do? You know, what are you looking for?”
And being the Socratic professor that I am, I say, well,
what does your son or daughter do? What do they do really well
that we’d be interested in? And typically their answers are,
well, they’ve got great vision. They’re really good. They can

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see the entire field. Or, my daughter is the fastest player,
there’s nobody that can beat her. Or, my son’s got a great
left-footer. Really great in the air and can hit every ball.
I’m like: “Yeah, not bad; but to be quite honest with you,
those are the last things I’m looking for. The most important
thing? Self-confidence.”Without that skill, and I use the word
skill intentionally, without that skill, we are useless as a
soccer player. Because when you lose sight or belief in yourself,
we’re done for.
I use the definition of self-confidence to be the ability
or the belief to believe in yourself, to accomplish any task,
no matter the odds, no matter the difficulty, no matter the
adversity. The belief that you can accomplish it –
self-confidence.
Some of you are saying, “Great, I don’t have it. I’m so
shy. I’ll never do that, bla, bla, bla.”And you start to drag
all the way down here. But, I use the word skill because I
believe it can be trained. And I’ll show you a couple of ways
in which we do. Hopefully I won’t run out of time. I don’t
use any slides because my speech always goes here, or here, or
here. So we’ll see which way we get to.
The easiest way to build self-confidence: there’s no magic

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button. I can’t say: “Hey, this plane is going down, who can
fly? Put your hand up.”“I can, I’m confident!”
Repetition, repetition, repetition. Right?What does
Malcom Gladwell call it, the 10,000-hour rule? There’s no magic
button.
I recruited a goalie from Colombia, South America one year.
Big, tall 6’3″ man. You know, he had hands like stone. I
thought he was like Flipper. Every time I threw him the ball,
down, onto the ground. I was like, oh my god, we’re in trouble.
Simple solution: get to the wall, kick a ball against the
wall and catch it. Kick the ball against the wall and catch
goal was 350 a day for eight months. He came back, his
hands were calloused, the moisture on his hands were literally
gone, he is now playing in Europe. Magic? No.
Repetition, repetition, problem is, we
expect to be self-confident but we can’t be unless the skill,
or the task we’re doing, is not novel, is not new to us. We
want to be in a situation where we have so much pressure in that
and what I mean, because pressure builds diamonds, we want to
be in a situation where “Hey, I’ve done this a thousand times”.
I did my speech, and I practiced in front of a mirror: bla,
bla, bla, bla, bla, bla. Hey I’m sounding good. And then I went

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in front of my kids, and my wife. I said, oh gosh, I got a little
nervous.
Then I’d get in front of Glenn Gould, Oh my goodness, I
am a little more nervous! By the time I get to the ACG, where
2,500 people, can’t say anymore, right? Twenty-five hundred
people, where twenty-five hundred people are there, I won’t
have a single ounce of nervousness because of my ability to
practice. Right?
Over, and over, and over, again.
The problem with repetition is: how many of us bail after
the first bit of failure? How many of us bail after the first
bit of adversity? Edison was on that video, and it depends who
you ask, there’s anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 tries to build
that light bulb. 1,000 to 10,000.
J.K Rowling should be on that video. Do you know how many
publishers she took her Harry Potter book to? I believe the
number was 12 or 13…I am pretty confident but after two or three
no’s I’d be like: “damn it!”.
After six or seven, I’m like: “maybe not!” Definitely
after nine or ten, I’d be looking to be a soccer coach or
something else besides an author. Right? I mean, twelve times
somebody said no. But, practice, practice, practice, and do not

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accept failure.
Maybe it shouldn’t be repetition, maybe the answer should
be persistence. Because we all repeat something but very few
of us really will persist. So that’s one way to build
self-confidence.
Get out there. Do what you want to do and do not accept
other one is self-talk. We all have a self-talk tape that
plays in our head. Anybody go shopping and put on a pair of pants
this week? If you’re a woman, the first thing that always comes:
“Damn I look fat in these pants!.”
And if you’re a man, it’s the opposite: “Oh god, I got
no muscle, I’m so flabby!” Right? We all have this tape that
plays in our a student, if they asked me the question,
it was like: “Oh, gee please professor don’t pick me, I don’
t know the answer.” I’d look down. Right?
If you’re in the b…when I, let me tell you something, and
the VP of business admin is here, I shouldn’t repeat this, but
when they hired me as an athletics director, I sat in an
architect’s meeting, and I am as dumb as a post when it comes
to anything to do with numbers and angles.
And they are like: the fundibulator valve of the
architectural, uh, what do you think doctor Joseph? Uh, let me

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look into that for you and get back to you. Right? I was in a,
oh god god, please don’t ask me, please don’t ask me. We all
have this negative self-talk that goes in our head.
Guess what? There’s enough people that are telling us we
can’t do it. That we’re not good enough. Why do we want to
tell ourselves that? We know for a fact that thoughts influence
actions. We saw it there with the video Sheldon, Dr. Levy showed.
We know that our thoughts influence actions, why do we want
to say that negative self-talk to ourselves? We need to get our
own self-affirmations. Muhammad Ali, what was his
self-affirmation? I am the greatest! Who else is going to tell
you?
There need to be quiet moments in your bedroom, quiet
moments when you’re brushing your teeth. That we need to
reaffirm: “I am the captain of my ship and the master of my
fate!” That is my affirmation.
I came from a school of one thousand people, I lived in a
town of one thousand people for fifteen years; there’s no reason
that I should be in charge of an Athletics department, building
maple leaf gardens. But I am the captain of my ship and the
master of my fate.
If I don’t say it, if I don’t believe it, no one else

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do you build self-confidence? Get away from the people
who will tear you down. There’s enough of that.
Muhammad Ali, I am the greatest! There is no one better than
me. There’s a difference between hubris, and ego, and false
pride. It’s just reminding yourself in quiet silent moments,
I put it down on a list, it’s right beside my mirror, right?
about all the things that make me who I am.
Because I make enough mistakes, and the newspapers will
recognize it, and people around me will recognize it; and they’
ll tear me down, and pretty soon I’ll begin to believe it.
There was a time when my confidence was really low. There
was a time when I took this job when I came from Iowa, I don’
t know if I could do it. I had to bring out my self-confidence
letter. A letter I wrote to myself when I was feeling good. Ivan,
congratulations on getting your PhD before 40. Congra…I am 40,
under. Congratulations on winning a national championship.
Good job on raising three good kids and marrying the right woman.
I wrote a letter to myself, it was my own brag sheet. My
own letter about the things I was proud of. Because there are
moments, and we’ll all experience them in our career, in our
lives, in our job hunting, in our relationships; when we are
not feeling good about who, and what, and where we are.

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And I had to bring out that letter and read it time and time
again, for a period of about two weeks, to weather me through
that storm. It was important. Stop the negative self-talk. If
you watch you’ll see some athletes that have a little bandage,
or a little brand around them.
Lance Armstrong is a perfect one. What’s his
self-affirmation? Livestrong isn’t a brand, it was to remind
him of who he was. Live strong. Then it became a brand. He would
move that from one arm to the next arm, when doubt and fear came
into his mind. Live strong, put it on there, let’s go. We’
ll all have it, we place it.
Two ways to build self-confidence. I’m worried about my
time, I’m going to tell you of one way you can build
self-confidence in others. We are coaches and educators, we are
teachers, we are people who will create value in the world; and
in doing that, we are critical by the nature of what we do.
I am a coach, I want you to score a goal. The ball went over
high. “Dang it!” The ball went high! “Thank you coach, I know
that. Feedback tells me that.” So what do we do? I need you
to put your elbow here, I need you to put your knee over the
ball, I need you to follow through. Boom. Land. Great.
Notice, I never made it as a professional. What can we do?

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We fix mistakes. When I’m fixing that mistake: “Johnny, this
is terrible, you need to bend your knee, you need to do this,
this.”
What have I done to Johnny’s self- confidence? Bend your
knee, then do this, then do this. Next thing you know, Johnny’
s crushed. Ignore what Johnny does wrong and find Bob or Sally
or Freda over here. Great goal Freda, I love how you kept your
knee low, you followed through, and you landed like this. Great
job!
Johnny: “Oh?” Great! Johnny’s not demoralized. His
confidence isn’t shot, and what I’ve done is, I’ve built up
Freda’s. Imagine how we could change the way we parented kids.
Instead of: “get that glass off the counter, what’s wrong with
you?”
If we catch the mother, good. Great job! Great job. Thank
you Alice for taking your glass to the counter. It sounds simple
but we forget about it. Or as educators, or as somebody as a
team, if we manage to praise the positive behaviour that we
wanted to reinforce. We forget it. It sounds so simple.
Catch them when they’re good. We forget it. It’s simple.
Here’s what they did.
There was a study in Kansas that did this. They did video,

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and we all do video. And we show the video of them doing the
run of the play: “Um, this goal happened because the basket
wasn’t protected, we didn’t rotate here, right? We needed to
do this and then cover the slot.”
And, if that’s the baseline, improvement of the Kansas
State team went like this. Then, they said they ignored all of
that and they just showed them the times they did it right. The
times they did it perfect. That presented no goals, spoke to
the same points, improvement went like that.
It changed and revolutionized the way we as coaches
interact with our student athletes. We can apply that to the
business world, we can apply that to our student group works,
we can apply that to our management teams. Easily: catch them
when they are good.
Last and certainly not least. My son is really good at this.
Self-confident people interpret feedback the way they choose
to. I ask my son who is by the far a terrible, terrible athlete,
gets it from his dad.
The game’s…How’s the game? Oh great! I scored three goals,
I got two assists. I’m like: “I did not see him touch the puck!”
But he has his own perception of how he did! I love it!
Right? I’m the…I’m that guy! I’m like: “I remember when

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I was taking when I met my wife, it was in the commons. “Paulie,
would you like to go to the movies? Ladies? Tingly, tingly,
tingle.” And she goes: “Ah, no.” I asked her again. Because
I think that she just hasn’t seen me in the right light.
Maybe, that’s not the wrong shirt on. Right? Because I’
m interpreting that the way I want to interpret it.
Finally I asked her out again. She gave me this one comment,
right? Or, she sent it to her friend. Because that’s the way
you did it back then. “She wouldn’t date you unless there was
the last person on Earth, hell was freezing over, there was a
small chance we had to save the planet Earth. Some people, it’
s like, there’s no chance.
I’m like: “You’re saying there’s a chance.” Right? Because
that’s how I’m going to interpret it. If I could give you one
thing to take from this, it is: no one will believe in you unless
you do.
Listen to the words of that video, here’s to the crazy ones,
the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in
the square holes. We’re supposed to be different, folks. And
when people look at us, believe in yourself.
Thank you

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