How to Deal With Self-Doubt

6 practical tips for finding your way out of the fog of uncertainty

We can be on course to achieve our goals when suddenly a wave of fear and doubt tries to side line us. Don't let them. Soloviova Liudmyla/Shutterstock

Any description of human behavior should have something to say about the complicated relationship we have with our emotions.

I’m someone who longs to be rational and well-reasoned in most of what I do, but upon reflection, I can see how frequently my life is, instead, steered by emotion. This shouldn’t come as a surprise: Decades of research, synthesized in a research article published in the Public Administration Review, have concluded that human decision-making is complex and not easily explained by a single model.