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Analysis Of Richard Shell's Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search For Success

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In chapter 6 of Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success, G. Richard Shell argues that confidence is central for achievement. Confidence, Shell writes is part of discovering your true self and is related to our sense of purpose and our ability to interpret failure the right way. Confidence can be broken into two stages. The first type is to give strength in ones skills. The second type is to put to the test in ones skills. According to Shell, the best kind of confidence is the belief in oneself, the belief of high morals, the belief to be the best you can. Makes sense, right? The way we think about ourselves is related to our confidence in the way we learn new skills. However, according to Shell that is not enough as our desire

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