A Psychologist’s Guide to Entrepreneur Confidence

Patrycja Slawuta, M.A, PhD(c) PsychSelfHackathon

@Patrycja_NYC 1

Patrycja: Chief MindHacker

Confidence

The secret sauce that turns epic ideas into

judgements of what you think is possible into

epic ACTION

SelfHackathon

Born out of 10+ years of psychological research

+neuroscience

+ Neuro Linguistic Programming

+ Hypnosis

+ Jungian archetypes

Building Confidence

• DOING vs THINKING

• can’t THINK you way into confidence

• Do Epic Sh*t

Lay of the Land

• Human mind = most untapped natural resource

• Humans = living CODE —> programmable

• Neuroplasticity = the brain rewires constantly—> breaking the habit of being the old YOU

The Mind Game• Success = mind game

• Brain secretes thoughts: + and -

• Brain: velcro for negative

teflon for positive

• Mind = meaning-making machine —>

hello INNER CRITIC!

Mindhack #1

• Don’t have to believe all your thoughts

“Nothing can harm you as much as

your own thoughts unguarded”

Gautama Buddha

Hacking the habit of being YOU

• Start : where are you?

• Who are you?

• What do you believe?

• and most importantly: What do you DO?

New habits = new YOU

• The science of little wins

• celebrate every little new ACTION

• daily little steps create new habits

• new habits = new YOU

Hacking COURAGE

• Courage is not an absence of fear.

• Courage = feeling the fear and doing it ANYWAY

• Courage is a decision

• Are you giving yourself permission to be courageous?

Courage Mantra

Just Do It

Other people

• Humans = social animals

• Wired for connection

• Other people affect us constantly

• We unconsciously mimic and learn from others

The power of others• Psychological research: we are the

average of 5 people we spend the most time with

• Who is programming YOU?

• If it empowering / disempowering?

• Who do you want to program you - a CHOICE.

Social self-hacking

• Chose WHO/HOW/WHY

• WHO programs you

• HOW they program you

• WHY do you allow them to program

Hacking the minds of others

• Cut down learning curve

• Ask “How do you…?”

Summary

• Confidence comes from DOING

• Hacking confidence:

• Thinking different thoughts

• Deciding to be courageous

• Choosing who programs you

More Confidence MindHacks

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