Worksheet for Self-Learning: TedTalk
1. Title of the Speech, the speaker
Six behavior to increase your confidence ---by Emily Jaenson
2. Vocabulary & Useful Expressions
Frat party(聯誼): A party in America for colleges.
Accolades(榮譽):praise and approval, similar meaning with reward.
get-go: from the start or beginning
bolster(支撐)
recollection(回憶):memory of something
3. Summary of the Talk
The speaker is the first female to become the triple A (mlb minor league)
manager. She also earned a podcast with many listener, and she summarize all
of her accomplishment: The number 1 skill they have improved in order to
earn the spot in this industry is “confidence”
Giving the question to audience :How many runs could you score if you were
10 times more confidence.
To increase confidence, speaker gave 6 behaviors and suggestion:
1. Count yourself in:3、2、1 counting will get you started, momentum will keep
you going. This tip can help people not to shy on challenge somethings.
2. Give yourself 20 seconds for courage: What if you only had to be brave for
a total of 20 seconds. Just 20 second of courage, and many things would be
different.
3. Take a seat at the table: Don’t just wait and do nothings, go to start with
some action.
4. cheer for other people success: Confident people celebrate the success of
others rather than feeling threatened. You can tell yourself ”good for her
but not for me”. When next time is your time to celebrate, you can imaging
many people would around you like that.
5. booster your confidence for an activity through your already great
performance in another : What is your proud accomplishment. Use your
prior success to propel yourself forward.
6. Celebrate constantly: Find ways to celebrate that are meaningful to you.
Personal goals, for past or for present. Remember to celebrate and affirm
yourself when you attend those goals.
4.
Reflection (120 words): Reflect on your self-learning and the talk.
I believed that having confidence is important skill for people to have
successful life and nice days. While every time I see those people who
always behaves high confidence with smiling all the time, I would noticed
that: confidence would give people for a wonderful life.
In this video, I learn 6 behaviors to increase confidence, and I am
impressed about the first one and the fifth one the most.
The first behaviors speaker gives is “Count yourself in with 3,2,1,go” The
reason why I like this tips is that I often hesitate or doubt for myself when
the precious opportunities appears. However, because of a while of
hesitation, the chance disappeared and then I would be really upset and
regret for my unconfidence at that moment. Therefore, the speaker
words: ” counting will get you started, momentum will keep you going”
moved me deeply. If I can be brave and be more confident to start by
count myself in, maybe it’s just a small talk with foreigner, or maybe is a
competition to join, or maybe is a chance to show out my effort on
somethings, etc. Actually, many things are not that difficult for me to
conquer and to accomplish, but it is difficult for me to start with
confidence. And by the speakers tips, I believed that counting myself in is
something to let the start become easier and more confident .
With these tips to increase the confidence, I must be more possible to
jump out of the comfort zone, learn new things, and show the best of
myself to other people and also get more chance to grow. I trust that with
confidence, I would get closer to the success, and have more wonderful
life.