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The strait may reopen, but global confidence may not return | Opinions

The strait may reopen, but global confidence may not return | Opinions

Published by Sam Flores

United States President Donald Trump’s claim that a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz has been largely negotiated may calm markets temporarily. But the deeper significance of the current crisis lies elsewhere. The issue is no longer only whether trade routes remain open but who has the power to condition access to them. The specific terms of any agreement may evolve, and any diplomatic arrangement may still be delayed, contested or revised. But the broader pattern is already visible: Strategic trade routes are becoming more politically managed, commercially exposed and geopolitically contested. The danger is not necessarily that diplomacy fails. The more important risk is that it succeeds just enough to disguise a weaker order as stability. Temporary calm is not the same as strategic stability. Calm can be negotiated; stability must be trusted. The most important shift, therefore, is not from war to peace but from disruption to governance. Iranian plans for an authority to manage the Strait of Hormuz and exert greater influence over routing decisions and possible transit tolls show that …

You Can Usually Tell How Confident Someone Is By These 10 Things They Do Automatically

You Can Usually Tell How Confident Someone Is By These 10 Things They Do Automatically

Published by Jenni Sidey

Some years ago, I came across this superb quote from Robert Greene’s book, The 48 Laws of Power: “Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves.” You don’t wait for the world to announce you as more — you take it without permission. Assuming emperor status is independent of your background, height, or income. If you’ve ever felt confident, but it was only felt in specific moments and environments, usually when alone, these skills might help. Self-confidence is who we are in the absence of self-judgment and criticism. I learned everything I could about confidence, and I’m far better today, which is why I’m sharing these things with you that the most confident people do on autopilot. You can usually tell how confident someone is by these 10 things they do automatically: 1. They create and maintain their own rituals Develop morning and evening rituals that reinforce your sense of importance and purpose. Aimlessness is best left to the peasants. Repetition is the way your brain logs proof that you can be …

‘A sense of trusting one’s self’: how to start building confidence | Well actually

‘A sense of trusting one’s self’: how to start building confidence | Well actually

Published by Sam Flores

When I was in middle school, my father told me 80% of how people see you is how you see yourself. This was terrible news at the time, because I was deep in the depths of puberty, self-loathing and figuring out how to part my hair. Though he pulled that number out of thin air, in the intervening years I’ve found he was on to something – projecting confidence can sometimes be the key to success, professionally and personally. But how does one actually cultivate confidence? And what if our understanding of what confidence is skewed? “Confidence is so often this thing we think we’re going to arrive at,” says Claire Fountain, licensed therapist and writer. We often tell ourselves we will feel confident once we accomplish a certain goal or look a certain way, she explains, but true confidence is not dependent on outside factors; it’s “a sense of trusting one’s self”, Fountain says. If you struggle with confidence, you’re in good company. Just remember it doesn’t have to be forever. “We can change …

This ‘Confidence Boosting’ Teeth Whitening Kit Is 50% Off Now

This ‘Confidence Boosting’ Teeth Whitening Kit Is 50% Off Now

Published by Sam Flores

We hope you love the products we recommend! All of them were independently selected by our editors. Just so you know, HuffPost UK may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page if you decide to shop from them. Oh, and FYI — prices are accurate and items in stock as of time of publication. If you are my dentist, look away. Let’s be honest: who likes going to the dentist? It’s expensive, it takes forever, and most of the time there’s nothing worth writing home about, leaving you £70 down and feeling like you’ve been through the wars. While, sure, I care about my future wellbeing or whatever, if I’m being real, the main reason I go to the dentist is for aesthetic purposes. I don’t want my teeth to look bad – sue me, okay! Luckily for me and any anti-dentist attenders out there, SmilePro has created an at-home kit to keep those pearly whites, well, white. Its Advanced Whitening Kit can be done at home, so …

Emotionally Happy People Do 3 Things To Let Go Of Shame Instead Of Hiding It

Emotionally Happy People Do 3 Things To Let Go Of Shame Instead Of Hiding It

Published by Jenni Sidey

Everyone has experienced shame at some point in their lives. But not everyone is aware that the emotion is there until it creeps up to the surface in the form of panic, anxiety, depression, or other negative feelings and behaviors. Shame can be the hidden flaw you don’t notice until it’s too late. In that moment, you ask yourself: How long has this thing been here? You wonder if anyone saw it — or, worse: did people judge you for it? You quickly retrace your steps, wondering where and how it happened, all the while wishing you knew how to deal with shame and could have prevented the problem in the first place. Like a shirt stain, shame can go unnoticed. And like a stain, how you respond to shame can make or break your chance to save the day. Do you beat yourself up over it, or shrug your shoulders, laugh, and love yourself the same? For some people, learning how to love yourself is complicated, and even the tiniest mistake can trigger feelings of low self-esteem. But what if …

Who Is PGA Championship Leader Alex Smalley? A Player With the Confidence He Can Win

Who Is PGA Championship Leader Alex Smalley? A Player With the Confidence He Can Win

Published by Sam Flores

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — Alex Smalley lived in the Wannamaker Quad, the dorm at Duke when he blossomed into a golf star and even beat Scottie Scheffler in a key match in the NCAA Championship. The “Wanny,” as it’s called, houses sophomores and upperclassman. He might poetically be the player hoisting the Wannamaker Trophy as the PGA Championship winner. “My parents and I have been joking that maybe this would be a tournament that I would win just because of that kind of fact,” Smalley said. “That’s just kind of something that we’ve joked about even before I made it out here.” Smalley graduated from Duke, loves travel to Disney World, and his mom and dad caddied extensively for him throughout his career. Here’s one more fun fact for Smalley: He leads the PGA Championship — not Rory McIlroy or Scheffler or Jon Rahm — and could close out his first career PGA Tour victory, much less his first major, on Sunday. Smalley’s recent hot streak stretched into Saturday with terrific play on the …

Finding Connection and Confidence After Brain Injury

Finding Connection and Confidence After Brain Injury

Published by Jenni Sidey

By Emma Collins, Encephalitis International Navigating life after a brain injury, such as encephalitis, carries unknowns and uncertainties for those affected as well as their family and friends. Recent research has discussed the social isolation experienced by those with an acquired brain injury (ABI), and the importance of social connection to reduce isolation. This isolation is likely to be well known by those directly affected, confounded by the disability often left by ABIs and the social stigma that can be attached to this. To help overcome this, it is vital that patients and families have access to emotional and social support in the weeks, months, and years following brain injury. It is common for brain injury to lead to long-term fatigue, depression, anxiety, and sleep problems, effects that are not currently sufficiently captured in patient outcome measures. Clinical rehabilitation and mental health services are vital components to supporting patients and their families and provide vital aftercare following acute treatment. Outside of these medical services, however, it is important that people do not feel alone. There …

8 Women Over 50 Share Makeup-Free Photos To Normalize Aging Without Botox Or Fillers

8 Women Over 50 Share Makeup-Free Photos To Normalize Aging Without Botox Or Fillers

Published by Jenni Sidey

To be 50 is to enter an empowering realm of womanhood. Many women say that at this age, they feel more comfortable in their own skin, finally feel the confidence they always wanted, and embrace the power to love themselves with zero filters. The no-makeup look continues to be embraced as a higher standard of beauty, the new natural. Do women in their 50s without makeup become a more authentic version of themselves — or are they giving up on the tools (Botox, fillers, lasers, surgery) that are right there waiting to be used and appreciated? It all depends on the person. Some of us refuse to leave our homes without some tinted moisturizer, a touch of lipstick, or maybe some mascara. Others wonder why we put in all that effort, money, and time just to take away from the beauty nature already gave them. To figure out what was going on, we talked to a few friends in their 50s and learned a lot about how these women feel about themselves with and without makeup. Women over 50 …

Confidence: The Cartoon That Helped America Get Through the Great Depression (1933)

Confidence: The Cartoon That Helped America Get Through the Great Depression (1933)

Published by José Betancourt

No more bum­min’, let’s all get to work… Actu­al­ly, hold up a sec. We’ll all be hap­pi­er and more pro­duc­tive if we take a moment to start our work day with Con­fi­dence, a pep­py musi­cal ani­ma­tion from 1933, star­ring new­ly elect­ed Pres­i­dent Franklin Delano Roo­sevelt and Mick­ey Mouse pre­cur­sor, Oswald the Lucky Rab­bit.  Few Americans—today we’d refer to them as the 1%—could escape the pri­va­tions of the Great Depres­sion. The movies were one indus­try that con­tin­ued to thrive through this dark peri­od, pre­cise­ly because they offered a few hours of respite. No one went to the pic­tures to see a reflec­tion of their own lives. Gor­geous gowns, glam­orous Man­hat­tan apart­ments and roman­tic trou­ble cer­tain to be resolved in hap­py endings…remember Mia Far­row’s belea­guered wait­ress bask­ing in the Pur­ple Rose of Cairo’s reas­sur­ing glow? Giv­en the pub­lic’s pref­er­ence for escapist fare, direc­tor Bill Nolan, the Father of Rub­ber Hose Ani­ma­tion, could have played it safe by gloss­ing over the back­sto­ry that leads Oswald to seek out advice from the Com­man­der in Chief. Instead, Nolan deliv­ered his joy­ful car­toon ani­mals into night­mare ter­ri­to­ry, the Depres­sion per­son­i­fied as …