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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONFIDENCE AND CERTAINTY

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONFIDENCE AND CERTAINTY

Lagos Business Forum · 2024 · 17:18

A keynote distinguishing the feeling of confidence from the evidence of certainty, and why conflating them stalls good people.

Key Ideas

  • Confidence can be built without a single guarantee of the outcome.
  • Waiting for certainty is often just fear wearing a more respectable outfit.
  • The most capable people in any room are usually the least certain.
TRANSCRIPT (EXCERPT)
“Certainty is a luxury reserved for decisions that don't matter. Everything worth doing has to be done without it.”

[Full transcript available on request via the media kit.]
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