Various aspects of the work we do has an impact on our confidence. We make a mistake on the project we are working on and are called out by a superior. A coworker or peer has a bullying demeanor that shakes your confidence in your abilities. If your self-confidence is low, you will find it exceedingly difficult to accomplish your goals and achieve success. Everybody, at some point in their life, has suffered from low self-confidence. The key to building your self-esteem in today's world is to be persistent and find the ways to build confidence that work for you so that you can do everything you've set out to do in your life. Seneca writes in Letter 78 of the Moral Letters This, too, will help – to turn the mind aside to thoughts of other things and thus to depart from pain. Call to mind what honourable or brave deeds you have done; consider the good side of your own life. Run over in your memory those things which you have particularly admired. Then think of all the brave men who have conquered pain: of him who continued to read his book as he allowed the cutting out of varicose veins; of him who did not cease to smile, though that very smile so enraged his torturers that they tried upon him every instrument of their cruelty.In this episode we look at different ways for improving your self-confidence.