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CONFIDENCE IS A SKILL

Hey Guys, Randy Arias here, and today I want to talk to you about confidence being a skill and let me explain what a skill is. A skill is something that you learn. It’s not something you’re born with. Some people have talent, natural talent. Some people have skill. A skill is something that you gain from practice and practice and practice for over a long time and it becomes something you’re good at.

If you play baseball for example, and you couldn’t hit the ball the first time but you tried and you tried and you tried, day after day, week after week. You actually get to a point where you can hit the ball, and if you keep going and going and going. You’re going to be able to hit a homerun eventually right. Same thing, so a skill, something you can learn through practice.

And so I want to tell you a little bit of my scenario of something that I’ve encountered in my life and that is that, I’ve had over twenty jobs in my life. I’ve been working since I was fifteen. I’m twenty-six right now. So I’ve had a lot of jobs because I never kept them. So I’m not proud of it but what I am proud about is actually getting the job.

So what does that mean? It means that throughout the years of getting different jobs, I became really, really good at getting the job. The interview process, and see that gives me an advantage over the competition. And so my confidence level when it comes to getting the job at the interview is a lot higher than someone that hasn’t had the experience that I’ve had, in the sense of getting the job.

Because here’s the thing, in school they teach you, how to get the job. What to say, what not to say right. What to put in your resume and all that stuff but they don’t teach you how to talk to people. They don’t teach you verbal skills. They don’t teach you eye contact. They don’t teach you confidence. They don’t teach you that. That’s something that you have to learn as a person and I’m going to tell you something, because I’ve been a manager.

People hire employees that have great communicational skills. So that is the number one thing that you should be working on if you want to get the job. But anyways that’s another topic.

Back to the skills, the point that I’m trying to get at is that because I had so many jobs in my life, I got really good at getting jobs. I got really good at being hired; at acing the interview basically. And so when I go into a job interview, now, there are always other people that are going to interview with you at the same time.

I have such a confidence in myself that I know I’m going to get the job over anyone here because I know for a fact that the things that are going to come out of their mouth are not going to be confident. They’re going to be scripted. They’re going to be things that the interviewer has heard before and what I’m going to bring is passion.

I’m going to bring commitment. I’m going to bring that knowledge of what I know they want to hear with the enthusiasm that’s going to get me the job. Now relating that to what you want to achieve.

In order to get good at anything in life as far as confidence, if you want to get good at talking to girls or you want to get good at public speaking. The best way to go about it, is to practice it. To just do it over and over and over and over again until it becomes easy. Once it becomes easy you then build a competence in that skill. And through practice you become better and better and better.