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36 and still feeling like I did when I was 17.

A good way to start building confidence is to talk to your supervisor and ask them to schedule you around a day when you can attend one of those book club meetings.

You build confidence by doing things that make you uncomfortable. You get used to doing them and see that they aren't so bad after all.
 
Markness said:
I wish I could prove my parents wrong.
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This, on the face of it, might be taken as a motivator.

It doesn't seem to have inspired you toward anything
useful yet, though. You continue to stew over the
idea of "proving people wrong."
 
tree said:
This, on the face of it, might be taken as a motivator.

It doesn't seem to have inspired you toward anything
useful yet, though.
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They tend to dismiss any ideas I have and when I don’t succeed at something, I have nothing to show for my efforts so I deliberately avoid them.
 
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