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The Confidence Gap: From Fear to Freedom Paperback – 30 August 2010

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This is a hands-on, self-helpguide to gaining long-lasting confidence and overcoming fear using mindfulness-based therapy.


This is a hands-on, self-helpguide to gaining long-lasting confidence and overcoming fear using mindfulness-based therapy. The author explains how many of us are playing the 'confidence game' using the wrong rules, and guides the reader through clear, simple exercises designed to help you manage difficult emotions such as anxiety and build genuine confidence. The Confidence Gap has a gentler, more thoughtful approach to teaching confidence than the typically aggressive/peppy self-help approach. It is instructive, reassuring and gentle in tone, which will appeal to women as well as men and the business market.
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Dr Russ Harris qualified as a doctor in the UK before migrating to Australia in 1991. He now works as a therapist and executive coach, as well as being an internationally acclaimed ACT trainer. He is the bestselling author of seven books, including The Reality Slap, The Confidence Gap, and his best-known work, The Happiness Trap, which has now been translated into thirty different languages.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Portfolio; 1st edition (30 August 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1921518960
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1921518966
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.3 x 2.3 x 23.5 cm
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Dr Russ Harris is world-renowned trainer in ACT, a therapist and a coach, with a background in medicine (as a general practitioner). He has run hundreds of workshops, providing training over fifty thousand health professionals around the world. He is the author of several bestselling ACT-based textbooks and self-help books. The Happiness Trap is an international bestseller, with over a million copies sold worldwide and editions published in over thirty languages.

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Gregory Merrick
5.0 out of 5 stars If you do the work, this is a game-changer.
Reviewed in Australia on 13 January 2024
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I found this book at a time I was struggling with self-confidence issues and the relentless unhelpful chatter of my brain. This book is easy to follow with no jargon you have to Google and plenty of real-life, relatable examples. There are many great exercises too!

I can truly say this book has set me on a new path. It’s taught me to see my brain for what it is, an organ that produces endless thoughts. By practicing the exercises I learned to ‘defuse’ and step back to see thoughts for what they are - pictures and words. They’re no-longer driving my behaviour on autopilot.

If this sounds interesting or useful, this book is for you. If your brain is saying this sounds like too much work / I’m fine / it’s probably not for me - this book is for you.
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Jacob
5.0 out of 5 stars In touch with reality.
Reviewed in Australia on 4 April 2023
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Dr Russ Harris is a truly humble man. Just like his other book The Happiness Trap, The Confidence Gap is an excellent perspective on our relationship with our emotions. This book will challenge how you relate to those thoughts in your head and it is refreshing to read something that is realistic. It is not a quick fix, it is a guide to point you in the right direction.
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sreekanthpdas
4.0 out of 5 stars Great book !!!
Reviewed in Australia on 4 December 2019
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A great inspirational book. You can change yourself if you follow the instructions and talks. I got reference of this book from one of my friends and its really helpful. Worth buying this.
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Emily
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant book that works
Reviewed in Australia on 28 September 2019
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This book has been one of the most helpful books I have ever gotten and I get a lot of books. Just what I needed to help with some things I struggle with. Would recommend anyone to get this if they want to know more about overcoming confidence issues and just learning useful skills.
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paul barakin
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Australia on 23 June 2017
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A very new and correct way to use your mind properly to make big life changes for the better ! Well done
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linda
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in Australia on 4 May 2018
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good reading just a little out of date in terms of referencing high profile celebrity.
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A. Auken
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book with practical advice
Reviewed in the United States on 20 March 2024
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Mr Harris book is fine. As always it is much more difficult to follow the advice than read it. I wish it had some more practical exercises and advice . And letting your thoughts pass by like cars sounds good but very often this can be dangerous especially if they suddenly drive you too much down. So the unhook thing sounds good but needs practice and hard work . Anyway, I will try using some of the advice .
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Dan Richards
5.0 out of 5 stars Russ Harris will change people's life's
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 September 2021
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As the title says, russ Harris is clearly an expert in the field of life and mental health and he is going to change peoples life's.

This is the 2nd book read of his, the first being 'the happiness trap', this being about confidence.

The way russ writes, it feels so relevant and every word, you can relate too, he doesn't 'beat around the Bush' as they say, he just delivers brilliant philosophy and techniques, that unravel all the obstacles possibly standing in your way, I have felt myself using some of the techniques in my head, and I've found it's a good way to distract and take yourself away from the voice inside or the doubts that creep up.

i have furoughly enjoyed both books that i have read, it has given me a completely different insight to happiness and confidence, of course your always going to feel sidetracked or pulled back into your original thinking but russ isn't forceful with you, he is calm and simplifies that it's OK to feel what you do and experience your normal daily life/struggles but with the techniques he explains, it's a gateway to a better way of living and understanding of who you are and what you go through.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Das Problem sind nicht deine Gefühle, Gedanken und Emotionen...
Reviewed in Germany on 17 May 2021
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... sondern die Art und Weise wie du mit ihnen umgehen. Hast du schonmal eine Situation erlebt, die dir extrem unangenehm war und dich ein Gefühl extremer Nervosität durchströmt hat? Und da du so nervös warst, hast du dir bestimmt über deine Nervosität Gedanken gemacht und schlussendlich gemerkt, dass du dadurch nur noch nervöser wurdest? Oh je, doppelt nervös! Das muss nicht so sein ... und das Buch zeigt dir wie das geht.

Das Buch hat meiner Meinung nach gegenüber vielen Selbsthilfebüchern einen riesigen Vorteil: es gibt dir eine Schritt für Schritt Anleitung, wie du mit diesen negativen Gedanken, Gefühlen und Emotionen umgehen kannst und das auf einer sehr realistischen, informativen und nachhaltigen Art und Weise. Zudem zeigt es auch auf, warum eben viele Techniken der Selbsthilfe-Branche nicht langfristig genug gedacht sind und nur kurzfristig etwas bewirken.

Aber noch eine kleine Warnung vorweg: Dies ist KEIN Buch, welches man sich einfach nur durchliest und dann weg legt (in der Hoffnung es lösen sich nun alle Probleme). Das macht auch der Autor von Anfang an klar. Wer dieses Buch liest, sollte also auch aktiv mitarbeiten und die Aufgaben erledigen, die der Autor mitgibt. Wer sich aber diesem (auch manchmal schwierigen) Prozess stellt, dem kann ich versichern, dass es der beste Weg ist, ein selbstbestimmtes und erfülltes Leben zu führen.

Viel Erfolg!
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Dayabindu
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!
Reviewed in Spain on 26 November 2020
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Clear, realistic, practical, very inspiring!
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genius
4.0 out of 5 stars buon acquisto
Reviewed in Italy on 29 November 2017
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questo libro necessita di essere letto e riletto per coglierne tutti i molti suggerimenti, utile ed anche pratico nel suo sviluppo contenutistico
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