Source: MidwestOutreach.org By Ron Henzel - Posted at Midwest Christian Outreach: Mark Twain once wrote, “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.”1 We have plenty of evidence that this axiom works. We even have a word for people who live by it on social media: “influencers.” True, there are influencers who seem to care about actual facts. But in today’s world of instant social media gratification, driven by dopamine hits users get from the numbers of likes on their posts,2 facts are often buzzkills. If you want to breathe the rarified air of the influencers’ Mount Olympus, you need to focus on projecting confidence. One communications/media trainer even has an article titled, “How to speak confidently when you don’t know what you’re talking about…”3 That’s your ticket! Continue here...
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