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Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Want to be Happier? Confidence Can Help

Chasing Life

Overview

According to neuropsychologist Ian Robertson, PhD, confidence can have a transformative impact on your life – it can even make you happier. When we trying something new, rebound from failure or even set goals for the future, we practice and build confidence. In this podcast episode, he and Dr. Sanjay Gupta discuss how confidence might be the most important resource for well-being and why imposter syndrome isn’t such a bad thing. Dr. Robertson is the T. Boone Pickens Distinguished Chair at Center for BrainHealth and an emeritus professor at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He is also the author of How Confidence Works: The New Science of Self Belief. Listen to the full podcast at Chasing Life

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Francesca Filbey in dark blue blouse with lights, portrait. Professor and Director of Cognitive Neuroscience Research of Addictive Disorders; Bert Moore Chair; Associate Provost, UT Dallas

Francesca Filbey, PhD

Bert Moore Endowed Chair and Professor, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences Director, Neuroimaging of Reward Dynamics (NiRD) Lab

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