Live Stream Event: Rough Drafts & Influence Strategy
Yesterday, the author attended Confidence Live, a thought-provoking event hosted by Pixie Polite and Professor Doctor Kieran Fenby-Hulse. The day was filled with enlightening talks, captivating performances, and intimate conversations that created powerful threads of connection among attendees.
Nicola Griffiths, a renowned speaker, gave a talk on executive function and setting goals. She challenged the notion of willpower and emphasized the importance of the right approach. Griffiths suggested the concept of activation before motivation, encouraging starting a task without waiting for motivation. She also discussed two systems in our brains, the "Executive" and the "Autopilot".
Griffiths offered the concept of Ideal, Fall-back, and Bare minimum plans, encouraging attendees to be prepared for various outcomes. However, the search results did not provide specific information about her talk concerning executive function and setting goals. Therefore, the key takeaway from her talk cannot be determined from these results.
Kira Matthews, another speaker at the event, encouraged questioning assumptions and reframing questions to ask someone else. She also encouraged the audience to "leave room for doubt".
Between sessions, there were opportunities for casual interaction. Confidence can also show up in shared stories over drinks, in the in-between spaces, when everyone is more themselves. The author had drinks and laughter in the company of Pixie and Kieran, ending the day on a joyful note.
Desree performed poetry that felt like a heartbeat, with a memorable line being "call it a halo" from her poem about odd jobs. The performance added a touch of emotion to the day, leaving attendees with a sense of connection and understanding.
The event was concluded by Sue Perkins with a captivating closing speech, filled with warmth, wit, and just enough weirdness. Perkins left the audience with a feeling of inspiration and a newfound steadier kind of confidence.
The author left the event with a full heart, a mess of scribbles, and a newfound steadier kind of confidence. Confidence Live was indeed a day of inspiration, connection, and personal growth.
- The author's newfound steadier kind of confidence could be attributed to both the enlightening talks, such as Nicola Griffiths' discussion on executive function and setting goals, and the lifestyle aspects of the event, like shared stories and performances by Desree, which all contribute to personal growth and health-and-wellness.
- In her talk, Kira Matthews emphasized the importance of questioning assumptions and mental-health practices like leaving room for doubt, aligning her ideas with the education-and-self-development theme of the event.
- The author took away ideas about activation before motivation, the two systems in our brains, and planning strategies from Nicola Griffiths' talk on executive function and setting goals, which can be applied to their lifestyle and personal-growth journey.
