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Give me 12 Minutes and I will make you Dangerously Confident🔥 | 5 Proven Steps | Prashant Kirad

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Key takeaways

Wellness and Self-Improvement

Key wellness & performance strategies (confidence building)

  • Reframe confidence as a skill (not something inherited)
    • Use science/psychology to “build” confidence through repeatable steps.

Break the “maze” of underconfidence using 3 phases

Phase 1: Build internal confidence

  • Micro-wins (self-efficacy training)

    • Practice the performance in steps:
      • Rehearse the speech to yourself in front of a mirror
      • Deliver it to 4 people
      • Deliver it to 10 people
    • Goal: convince your mind that you can perform, so anxiety decreases.
  • “Faith hack” breathing to calm fight-or-flight

    • Before stage/new tasks, reduce the stress-response by breathing:
      • Inhale through the nose for 5–7 seconds
      • Take a slight additional inhale
      • Slowly exhale through the mouth
    • Do 2–3 rounds to normalize heart rate/breathing and feel calmer.

Phase 2: Look confident outwardly

  • Eye contact via the Triangle Method

    • Instead of direct staring at eyes, focus on a part of the person’s head so it reads as eye contact.
  • Posture

    • Keep your back straight while standing/speaking.
    • The “correct posture vs crooked/bent posture” effect is presented as influencing how confident others perceive you.

Phase 3: Sound confident

  • Clarity matters (slow down slightly)

    • Speak with “processing fluency”:
      • Keep your words clear and understandable (example: Steve Jobs-style slower speech).
  • Use pauses

    • Say it with structure and breaks:
      • “I can do it and I will do it” (with pauses)
    • Pauses are positioned as a way to project poise and confidence.

Productivity/performance takeaway

  • Use a repeatable rehearsal + calming routine + delivery techniques to become more confident within 7 days (as claimed in the video).

Presenters / sources mentioned

  • Prashant Kirad (presenter)
  • Shantanu Bansal (mentioned as an intro speaker in the subtitles’ example)
  • Harvard research (mentioned regarding interviews/increased chances with speaking well)
  • Stanford University research (mentioned regarding breathing/physiology)
  • Steve Jobs (referenced for speaking slowly/clarity)
  • “74 people” study (referenced for posture effects; source not explicitly named)

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