Action before identity | Elliot Kay | TEDxNorthern Quarter
Description: Waiting to feel confident before taking action may have the order backwards.
This talk explores how action creates evidence, evidence reshapes identity, and a stronger identity makes bigger action possible. In Watch Me Go, Elliot Kay challenges the assumption that we need to feel ready before we move. He explores a different possibility: confidence is not always the cause of action. Very often, it is the consequence of it.
When we take action despite uncertainty, something important happens. We create evidence.We discover that we can walk into the room. We can survive rejection. We can learn the skill. We can recover when something goes wrong. We can do something today that yesterday's version of ourselves wasn't certain was possible.
That experience begins to change the story we tell ourselves about who we are and what we are capable of. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Close description
This talk explores how action creates evidence, evidence reshapes identity, and a stronger identity makes bigger action possible. In Watch Me Go, Elliot Kay challenges the assumption that we need to feel ready before we move. He explores a different possibility: confidence is not always the cause of action. Very often, it is the consequence of it.
When we take action despite uncertainty, something important happens. We create evidence.We discover that we can walk into the room. We can survive rejection. We can learn the skill. We can recover when something goes wrong. We can do something today that yesterday's version of ourselves wasn't certain was possible.
That experience begins to change the story we tell ourselves about who we are and what we are capable of. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Close description