7 Things Confident People Do Differently

The power of facing your fears

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As I got closer to university the invisible band around my throat tightened.

My psychology class was a big one, over 200 students, and the thought of walking into that room and standing at the doorway even for a few seconds was too much. My panic increased the closer I got. I walked halfway to class, then — feeling like a complete failure — turned around and walked home.

Social anxiety crippled me in my late teens and early twenties. There were times when I was fine: I attended parties, went to class, even spoke in front of a crowd, but there were other times that I hid in the toilet, hid in my room, hid against a wall. (I hid a lot.) My social anxiety became so bad that by 23 I wasn’t able to attend my own engagement party.

I realized I had a choice:

Let anxiety take over and trap me, limit me.

Or overcome it and be free.

I needed to find my confidence and, for the next 18 years, that’s what I set out to do. This is what I discovered about confident people:

1. They stand up tall

Confident people face the world with an open stance. They never cower or hunch. Studies have shown that our posture may very likely…