The David Nurse Show

Confidence Hack #74: Someone ahead of you paved your way, and you are doing the same for others. In the mid-1800s, on the path known as the Oregon Trail, it took an average of six months for a family to venture from Texas to Oregon. Now, it takes 4 hours and 25 minutes to fly from Austin, Texas, to Portland, Oregon. If you are not seeing the fruits of your labor today, know they are setting up som...

Confidence Hack #73: Imposter Syndrome means you are doing something RIGHT. Have you Felt Imposter Syndrome before? Yeah, I think we all have to some extent. Imposter Syndrome is the persistent inability to believe that one’s success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved through one’s own efforts or skills. Today, I’m going to flip imposter syndrome on its head completely. The feeling of t...

Confidence Hack #72: A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil and causes a tornado in Texas. North American theoretical meteorologist Edward Lorenz found something strange while studying weather patterns. In 1961, Lorenz was running a numerical computer model to redo a weather prediction he had currently been working on. Lorenz left the room and walked down the hall to get a cup of coffee. He entered...

Confidence Hack #71: Pedigree only means where you came from, not where you are going. Even if you look like your parents and can trace your DNA back to your great-great-grandparents, that doesn’t mean you must follow in their footsteps. The word pedigree means: ‘the recorded ancestry.’  Technically, pedigree only concerns where you came from, not where you are going. Tyler Perry has become one of...

Confidence Hack #70: The best-selling book of all time specifically mentions confidence 60 times, and this is why that is important. Anything mentioned more than 25 times should open our eyes. More than 50, we should become very aware of. Not many words or phrases are mentioned more than confidence in the Bible. The main point I want to outline here is that confidence is not used the same way thro...

Confidence Hack #69: The power of collective intelligence and multiple mind collaboration. I’m going to introduce you to the beauty of ‘a group-thinking.’ No matter how smart you think you might be on your own, you’re not. You can be the absolute best in your industry, but your brain’s capacity will never reach the potential capacity of multiple brains working together. We need others. No one in t...

Confidence Hack #68: Being the ultimate ‘glue guy’ translates to a winning culture. Shane Battier. From the outside world looking in, Shane’s skills weren’t flashy. He wasn’t dunking on anyone’s head or making the coolest crossover moves. He wasn’t even stuffing the stat sheet like you would think an NBA player would. But what Shane brought to every team he played for at every level was the most c...

Confidence Hack #67: Not everyone is a leader traditionally, but everyone is a leader in some way. In business - the Lattice System is a hierarchical approach that directly opposes the more familiar structure of the ‘Ladder System.’ The Lattice System encourages more communication and cross-collaboration. Instead of waiting for orders to be sent down the chain of command, the impetus is placed on...

Confidence Hack #66: How to go to sleep without mind-racing thoughts. Do you keep yourself up at night because you can’t seem to turn off your ‘racing mind'? It’s very, very common. Anxiety never leads to confidence. However, a race is technically run to be won. So, if your mind is racing, you can shift the direction in your favor.  Before you go to bed, write out every thought on a piece of paper...

Confidence Hack #65: Performing mental time travel can help us remember our most significant accomplishments! Have you ever heard of the ‘Forgetting Curve?’  I hadn’t either. Through extensive research, Hermann Ebbinghaus concluded that people will have forgotten an average of 50 percent of the information within one hour. Within 24 hours, they have forgotten an average of 70 percent of new inform...

Confidence Hack #64: Steve Jobs’s success cannot be defined without his failures. In 1985, Apple produced two supposedly revolutionary products - the Lisa and the MacIntosh. Sales didn’t scratch the floor of Apple’s expectations for the products. Someone had to go. CEO Steve Jobs was the one headed to the guillotine. Jobs didn’t lick his wounds in a pity party for himself. He used what he knew he...

Confidence Hack #63: If someone tells you they love their job 100% of the time, they are probably lying. Here’s the truth, its ok not to love your job 100% of the time. But what if you don’t love your job even 10% of the time? That is where today’s confidence hack comes in to play! Here is the point blank truth - you and only you are the one who decides how much joy you squeeze out of the lemon da...

Confidence Hack #62: Sometimes, all you need is to head to the beach and take a wiffle ball break. ‘Practice, you talking about practice,’ Allen Iverson famously quoted when questioned if he was focused in practice. Practice versus play. What if I were to tell you that you need both to become great? Deliberate practice and deliberate play. Deliberate practice is “practicing with a clear awareness...

Confidence Hack #61: He had every opportunity to blame himself and others around him, but he didn’t and became great. 13 turnovers. In one basketball game. In basketball terms, that’s like standing up to give a talk and forgetting all the words you were going to say and falling off stage. Bob McKillop, the head coach for Davidson University, did not bench his freshman point guard in the 2006-2007...

Confidence Hack #60: The kinkajous can run just as fast backward as it can forwards, and what that means for our confidence. Get this- the Kinkajous can run as fast forward as they can backward by physically turning the direction of their feet. Why am I telling you this, and what the heck does it have to do with confidence? Let me introduce you to the term scatter-focus. In this state, you let you...

Confidence Hack #59: The Hebrew word Yada means ‘to do’ and ‘to know.’ No, not Yoda, the little green guy from Star Wars. Yada. In the Hebrew language the word for ‘to know’ and ‘to do’ are the same word. One of the most significant gaps in society and a growing canyon is the difference between knowing and doing. The confidence boost today comes from embracing yada. When you know something, trust...

Confidence Hack #58: Diversion is a motivational ignitor, not a distraction! Are you like me, when you get so focused on something you tend to get stuck and frustrated because you want to finish it so badly? Well, you’re in luck. You are going to love today’s confidence hack! Creating a ‘planned diversion’ refuels the fire inside you directed towards your main job, project, or career. Psychologist...

Confidence Hack #57: Teaching a subject is the secret key to retaining 90% of your knowledge! From the famous Roman philosopher Seneca - “While we teach, we learn.” He couldn’t be more right. The 50/50 rule is a great tool I have implemented into my own life to make sure I retain what I learn. Here is how it works: Learn for 50% of the time and explain what you learn for 50% of the time. Gain conf...

Confidence Hack #56: The power of storytelling. I’m going to do you a favor and introduce you to the best ‘storytelling’ teacher I know, David JP Phillips. David JP grew up in rural Sweden and, from a young age, was taught the power of story by his parents. Today, I want to highlight one story that he tells in his Ted Talk, ‘The Magical Science of Storytelling.’ In early 2009, Rob Walker and Joshu...

Confidence Hack #55: Whether you know it or not, you are always selling. The Association for Psychological Science found that it takes 1/10th of a second to form an impression of someone when you first meet them. That rivals the flapping wings of a hummingbird! In today’s episode, I will give you three levels for understanding anyone you might meet and influencing people to ‘win them over’ from th...

Confidence Hack #54: Why you shouldn’t meet your heroes and the fall of Tiger Woods. When was the last time you scrolled through social media and someone was live-streaming an argument with their spouse? Or bragging about the F their child received on their report card and the constant stress they feel weighing them down to hit target numbers in their business. And if you think that is only ‘ordin...

Confidence Hack #53: The interpersonal expectancy effect is the idea that our expectations can actually create that outcome! Have you ever been to a movie that you didn’t think would be worth seeing, and you walked away raving about it? On the contrary, have you ever been to a movie where a friend had way over-hyped and walked away with a dissatisfied taste in your mouth? The human brain believes...

Confidence Hack #52: It over 1,009 attempts to make the best chicken the world had ever known, and that wasn’t half of the creator’s setbacks. Think about this - every difficult situation you have been through, you have gotten through. The old adage that ‘whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger’ might be true. This is the story of the most famous chicken recipe in the world. And without...

Confidence Hack #51: History, or rather man, will always repeat itself. Whether it is the mullet coming back in style or bell-bottom jeans, history (or the vehicle driven by the man we call history) repeats itself. Of the ten most dramatic stock market crashes since 1981, every 10-year return after the crash has been net positive. Meaning that crashes will happen, but so will recoveries.  This is...

Confidence Hack #50: Become awe-inspired by all of the wonders in this world, and know that there will be some things you won’t understand, and that’s PERFECT! String Theory. What is it? It’s a physicist’s way of trying to explain everything in the universe together as one - in a string. However, string theory has a fatal flaw. It can not be proven, and it can not even come close to being proven....