Why You Feel Confident One Day and Insecure the Next (and how to make it stick)

I used to think confidence was something abstract and mystical, something obtained only via a very specific mindset. I thought that maybe if I watched enough videos, read enough books, repeated the right affirmations… it would eventually just stick. But in practice, it never really did. I would feel confident for a day or two and then lose it again in the exact same type of situations. But me being the type of person who likes to journal and track everything, at some point I started noticing something strange: my thoughts were often not the thing that was changing first when I entered a 'low confidence week'. Instead it was my physiological state that led the change. My hormones, the food I was eating, how much I was exercising, it all was in some way related to the thoughts I was having later. I started to see surprising patterns which made me look at confidence completely different. In this video I dive into those patterns and try to explain the impact the state of your body has on your mood, social behavior and confidence. Why you keep flipping between confident and insecure versions of yourself, what’s actually happening underneath that switch, and how things like food, movement and hormones, through amongst others serotonine, quietly shape the state you’re in. In this video I will also talk about lobsters. A lot. These lobsters may or may not be at some or multiple moments be compared to humans in a somewhat simplified way (as more sections of this video are). I tried to make the video as scientifically correct as possible, but there sure are some limitations to that, so don't take everything too literal. Hope you enjoy! ------------------------------------------ Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:50 Dominant lobsters through serotonine 4:14 Serotonine & its effects 5:48 The impact of social hierarchy on the nervous system 10:40 'Low power mode' in humans 12:27 The amount of time it takes lobsters to adapt 13:28 How to change your nervous system's settings 14:09 Tryptophan protocol: 1st step to supporting serotonine system 15:18 Supplementing: 2nd step 18:38 Movement: 3th step 20:44 Gratitude: 4th step 22:15 Vividly recalling past successes: 5th step 23:11 Hormonal foundation: 6th step 28:07 Neuroplasticity & how to change your wiring 31:03 Outro --------------------------------------- Journals: First serotonine and lobster studies: https://link.springer.com/article/10.... https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s... Serotonine & Social Hierarchy study by Yeh et al.: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s... Study Tryptophan on humans: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... Study 5-HTP Singaporian adults: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17/17/... Study on gratitude: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24106... --------------------------------------- #confidence #serotonine #lobsterstudy #rewireyourbrain #mindset #selfconfidence #hormonalhealth #mentalhealthtips About: Confidence is more than an abstract mindset, it’s biology: your serotonin, nervous system, and daily habits shape how confident you feel. In this video, I break down why you switch between confidence and insecurity (with the lobster experiment) and how to rewire it.