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title: How Confident Are You Really? The 8-Question Check That Reveals How You Make Decisions
description: Low confidence makes you defer and overconfidence makes you rush. An eight-question check and five practical ways to make better decisions.
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-10-25T14:17:02.327Z
updated: 2026-10-25T14:18:43.280Z
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You make thousands of decisions a week, from what to say in a meeting to whether to accept a job, move house or end a relationship. Behind every one of them sits a single, invisible setting: how much you trust your own judgement. Set it too low and you hesitate, defer and let other people choose for you. Set it too high and you rush, skip the facts and walk into mistakes you could have seen coming.

The goal is not to feel more confident. The goal is to feel exactly as confident as your knowledge deserves. This piece shows you how to check where your dial sits today, what it is doing to your decisions and how to move it.

## Confidence is a dial, not a fixed trait

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