Boosting your confidence

You know confidence is vital... not only for your exams, but also in your daily life. But how can you work on it? In this post you can do some research on that topic, re-watching the video from TED talks (amazing site to learn, by the way), and diving further into the materials I'll share with you here.

Do some more reading (remember you can use Lingro when reading websites):

• Building confidence and self-esteem.
• Sowing failure, reaping success: what failure can teach.

Practice with a different video at TED Ed website:

• Overcoming obstacles. You'll need to create an account to take the activities, but I feel it's worth the while. If you don't feel like it, you can just watch the video on YouTube.

And finally you can test your mindset.

The 30-day challenge

More videos! This is a short speech of Matt Cutts, an engineer working in Google, and who may give you a good idea if you're trying to stick to a new good habit.

You can simply watch the video, or if you want to make it more interesting, you can also do a fill-in-the gaps activity. So, here you have the materials:

• Fill-in-the gaps
• Script

How do you feel about his method? Have you ever tried anything similar? Will you try it? Tell us!