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Is It Confidence or Performance?

Most of us feel pressured to appear more knowledgeable than we really are.

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Tony Case
Jun 30, 2026
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Bosses are known to encourage employees to bring their “authentic self” to work. But for many of us, authenticity may be giving way to what one recent study describes as “confidence theater,” the pressure to project certainty even when self-doubt runs deep.

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