* Confidence improves brain function and enhances your performance.

* It acts as a mini-antidepressant, boosting your mood.

* Confidence is contagious.

* It is the greatest antidote to stress.

* It comprises a set of habits that initially seem fake but become real with practice.

* Confidence can have a positive impact, but excessive confidence can have disastrous consequences.

Confidence lies at the core of what makes things happen. Clinical psychologist and neuroscientist Professor Ian Robertson explores the science and neuroscience behind confidence, explaining how it manifests in the mind, brain, and body. He analyzes where it comes from and how it spreads, with significant economic and political implications, and why it is not something we are born with but can be taught.

Pages: 320, Dimensions: 15.3x15.3cm