Happy High Status in The Guardian

June 8, 2023

This week’s article on our confidence in the post-Covid era came out in the Guardian on Wednesday and I’ve had hundreds of messages and outpourings along the lines of “Finally someone is saying what I’ve been feeling…” So thanks so much for that. I’ll be writing about confidence in all walks of life over the next month in the Guardian as part of a five-part series on finding our sense of self.

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