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90% of Self-Doubt Is Internal Judgment

The first action to overcome self-doubt is self-analysis — improve your self-awareness

Thomas Oppong
4 min readApr 3, 2022
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Self-doubt kills more dreams than talent.

People with high confidence tend to connect better with others, have more opportunities to succeed, make more money, have better self-esteem and are generally more successful in many areas of life.

Whatever you think to be true about yourself is how you build your life. You can’t rise above what you expect of yourself.

Many people convince themselves that what they expect or want to do is not going to work before they take any step.

They suffer internally and sabotage their actions. Seneca was right, “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality,”

Self-doubt is just a low level of confidence. It’s not a sign of being weak or a failure; it’s actually a natural reaction to the outside world.

Human beings have the ability to doubt themselves.

Our minds are constantly evaluating the world around us. We are constantly trying to find patterns, assign meaning and form opinions.

We are naturally inclined to be self-critical, and we tend to compare ourselves to others. This is natural, but it…

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Thomas Oppong
Thomas Oppong

Written by Thomas Oppong

Making the wisdom of great thinkers instantly accessible. As seen on Forbes, Inc. and Business Insider. For my popular essays, go here: https://thomasoppong.com

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