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Confidence

Rating 3.4
Word count
69K words
Chapters
27
ISBN
9787515528342

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Summary

When you stop seeking approval from others, inner confidence grows from within.

Have you ever had moments like these?

In a meeting, an idea circles on the tip of your tongue, but you stay silent for fear of being rejected?

In a relationship, you keep compromising and giving ground, yet never dare to voice your own needs?

When an opportunity appears, something stirs inside, but the voice of “I don't deserve it” always talks you out of it?

Juggling multiple roles in life, you run yourself ragged—and lose yourself along the way?

We often assume confidence comes from a respectable job, a generous income, or a perfect partner. So we keep seeking validation outside ourselves, yet still feel empty and unsteady. This book wants to tell you: true confidence never needs to be sought outside—it has always been hidden deep within you, waiting to be awakened.

This book offers 20 guides to confidence, building the four pillars of your life.

Catching Yourself

Give yourself a sense of security and stability; dare to take brave “leaps” from life's heights and to say “no” boldly. Dissolve fear and gain the freedom to choose.

Standing on Your Own

Master resources that don't depend on anyone else—wherever you land, you can survive and thrive. Cultivate the confidence to create value and improve yourself.

Talking About Money Without Shame

Let go of money shame, amplify your energy, and build the ability to plan proactively and rationally, with strong self-acceptance. Let resources and wealth flow toward you.

Rebuilding Your Inner World

Reshape your inner world, break limiting beliefs, build emotional resilience, and let the “light” of self-acceptance shine into the world.

Editor's review

This book tackles a very common yet hard-to-articulate problem: why, despite decent circumstances, we feel constantly unsteady inside. Rather than pinning confidence on a job, income, or partner, the author brings it back to inner cultivation, unfolding around four directions—catching yourself, standing on your own, talking about money without shame, and rebuilding your inner world—to form a relatively complete framework. The 20 guides read like action prompts, suited to being consulted in specific situations—speaking up in meetings, habitually giving ground in relationships, or saying “I don't deserve it” when facing an opportunity. The discussion of money shame and limiting beliefs touches sore spots many people avoid, and reading it feels like being seen through. Overall it is a self-help book in the psychological-growth genre, encouraging and guiding in tone, better used as a daily practice manual than a theoretical treatise. It's best read with your own specific struggles in mind, trying small experiments as you go—more rewarding than reading it straight through. If you are experiencing serious psychological distress, this book is no substitute for professional counseling.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • Working professionals who habitually please and yield, struggling to express their needs
  • Readers who often doubt themselves when opportunities arise and want to build inner stability
  • Young people who feel shame around money and want to plan their resources rationally
  • Self-help readers who like topic-based exercises and gradual mindset shifts

Not a good fit for

  • Readers seeking systematic psychological theory or clinical treatment
  • Those expecting immediate change in their circumstances and unwilling to do daily practice
  • Readers in serious psychological distress who need professional intervention

Reading tips

  1. Start with the framework of the four pillars, then choose the chapter most relevant to your current struggle for deeper practice.
  2. After each guide, pair it with a recent real-life scenario and write down one small actionable step.
  3. Compare the “talking about money without shame” section with your own income and expense records, and sort things out as you read.
  4. A week after finishing, revisit your notes to check which beliefs have begun to loosen.

About the publisher

Gold Wall Press China · Founded in 1989

Gold Wall Press is a publisher active in the fields of social culture and intellectual reading, with titles spanning social culture, literary appreciation, medicine, war and military life, and social psychology. In academic and intellectual publishing, it has released works by Zygmunt Bauman such as Individualized Society and Community, along with related writings by scholars including Cheng Boqing and Ouyang Jinggen. Its writing and creativity list is represented by John Truby's The Anatomy of Genres writing masterclass. Medical and psychological titles include Stephen W. Porges's Polyvagal Theory guide in three volumes and works such as I Try So Hard to Live. Literary works include Chen Gui and Shadow. It should be noted that public information on the press's full publishing history and organization is limited; the above introduction is based mainly on the publishing directions reflected in the books in the catalog.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 自序 在不确定的生活里,找到更多的确定性
  3. 第一章 为自己兜底的底气
  4. 01.过“说了算”的人生
  5. 02.透过房子,照见自己灵魂的样子
  6. 03.野心是对自我价值的肯定
  7. 04.精神自由的前提,是空间独立
  8. 05.对一切可能性说“是”
  9. 第二章 安身立命的底气
  10. 01.跳出规则和规训,玩你自己的游戏
  11. 02.别卡在“暂时”的生活里
  12. 03.好运显化:我想要,我得到
  13. 04.差距是从不会迭代拉开的
  14. 第三章 大方谈钱的底气
  15. 01.从想要的人生倒推行动路线
  16. 02.你从哪个瞬间开始想好好赚钱
  17. 03.买房的钱从哪儿来
  18. 04.挣钱没那么难:四种创收模式
  19. 05.涨了你是赢家,不涨还是你家
  20. 第四章 重塑内心的底气
  21. 01.单独所有的安全感
  22. 02.你在哪儿,家就在哪儿
  23. 03.整理家,就是在整理内心
  24. 04.每一个角落,都让我怦然心动
  25. 05.有爱有界限,才能“都挺好”
  26. 06.“翻新”自己,重建心理能量
  27. 后记 最好的“风水”,是我们自己

FAQ

How is this book different from ordinary chicken-soup-style inspirational books?
It doesn't stop at encouragement. It builds a structure around four pillars—catching yourself, standing on your own, talking about money without shame, and rebuilding your inner world—then grounds it in 20 specific guides. Readers can consult them by situation and work through small exercises, making it closer to a practical self-help manual.
Is it suitable for introverted people who aren't good at expressing themselves?
Yes. The book covers situations like staying silent in meetings, giving ground in relationships, and not daring to state needs, which introverts will easily relate to. Start practicing with the smallest expressive scenarios; you don't have to force yourself to become outgoing overnight—the point is to gradually build a sense of safety in expressing your needs.
After finishing, how can I tell whether I've made progress?
Watch for specific signals: Are you more willing to say you don't need something in small matters? Has the self-negating voice weakened when opportunities arise? Is there less shame when talking about money? Recording these changes is more reliable than a vague sense of whether you have confidence.
Can it be used as supplementary reading alongside psychological therapy?
It can serve as daily self-help reading to help sort out limiting beliefs and emotional reactions. But it is not professional treatment. If distress is clearly affecting sleep, work, or relationships, seek counseling or medical help first, and use the book's exercises as a complement.

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About the author

陈诗澄 Author

Public information about Chen Shicheng is limited. What can be confirmed is that the author wrote the book Di Qi (roughly, Inner Assurance), which is classified in the library under applied psychology. Judging from this category and the title, the book appears to be a psychology title for general readers, focusing on everyday themes such as inner strength, self-confidence, and mental states rather than being an academic monograph on psychological theory. Works of this kind usually use accessible language and a practical perspective to help readers understand their own emotions and behavior, and thereby gain steadier psychological support in real-life situations. Because the author's nationality, dates of birth and death, English name, and professional background have no reliable records, and the library holds only this one work, the author's writing style and overall body of work cannot yet be fully described; only preliminary judgments based on the subject matter of Di Qi are possible. Readers who wish to learn about Chen Shicheng may begin with Di Qi and observe the author's manner of expression and central concerns in applied psychology writing.

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