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When external confidence masks internal anxiety

Everyone thinks I'm so confident but I spend twenty minutes practicing how to ask for a coffee refill.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The performance of self-assurance can become so convincing that our struggles become invisible even to ourselves.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Masks and personas we wear?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.