This book showed practical tools that I could use in order to build my confidence. I enjoyed learning about the different tools that the author gave to the reader.

Loved this one! What great advice on living your life for yourself.

Enjoyed the short chapters and I have got this now!

Super hard to get through. Did not find it to be good advice. It was half good advice half preachy annoying wanted to throw it. Would not recommend. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

You Got This: Face Your Fear, Find Your Confidence is the second book by Caroline Foran, whose first book Own It I previously reviewed and was quite impressed with.  In this book, she aims to turn your mental fear blocks into building blocks to boost your confidence.

The first part of the book gives background information on fear, confidence, and related concepts like perfectionism and imposter syndrome.  Psychological theories, neuroscience, and research findings are explained in simple language.  The author explains why the comfort zone isn't inherently a good place, and why there is an optimal anxiety level.

The second part of the book is the confidence-building toolkit.  The first tool presented was stoicism, which is something I've seen a number of people writing about recently, although I've never taken the time to really look into it.  My understanding of the author's explanation is that it's essentially being in the present without allowing ourselves to be swayed by the desire for pleasure or the desire to avoid pain.  She acknowledges that some of what you might read about stoicism may trigger your bullsh*tometer; I always like it when someone is in tune with that kind of thing. 

Some of the other tools include temptation bundling (pairing something you don't want to do with something you do want ) and getting to the "fuck it moment" where you override your fear and do a task anyway.

While there's nothing I can identify that's "wrong" with this book, I felt a lot less engaged than I did with the author's first book, Own It, and it didn't feel like she was quite as present in this book as the first.  There aren't any clear problems that I see in the book, and it's quite possible that I wasn't engaged because I wasn't in all that great a place when I was reading it.  My lack of engagement aside, I think this book could be quite useful for someone looking for some strategies to boost their confidence.

You Got This is a unique self help book. It was easy to follow and enjoyable. I learned new information and I think it's worth requesting a galley for the new year.

This book does a really good job of talking about some difficult and confusing topics in a very easy to understand way. Self Help books can be either too wordy or "too cool". This book does a good job of being neither. They language is great and fun. The quotes and outside research are not too overwhelming. Great job on doing this. It can be hard. I really enjoyed this book. The sections and chapters are great. I was happy to see something on stoicism! I don't see this topic in many self help books! It's a way I try to live so it's refreshing to see in a modern approach to self help.