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I don’t know if this is a communication problem or articulation problem, or both honestly.

Basically, in my head the idea makes perfect sense, but when I start speaking, it comes out messy or incomplete.

And the thing is, this happens even in my native language sometimes, not only in English.

I usually know what I wanna say, but I struggle to explain it the same way I imagined it in my brain, or I get stuck in an endless loop of going back and forth to the same point.

Sometimes I pause too much, sometimes I overthink the sentence while talking, sometimes I speak so fast, which leads me to stutter or not pronounce the word/letter in the right way, and sometimes I finish speaking and feel like “that’s not what I actually wanted to say”.

Does anyone relate to this?

And how do people become more articulate? Is it practice only? Reading? Speaking Frameworks? Recording yourself?

Do you have any books, videos, or resources for that?

Would appreciate any advice.

I don’t know if this is a communication problem or articulation problem, or both honestly.

Basically, in my head the idea makes perfect sense, but when I start speaking, it comes out messy or incomplete.

And the thing is, this happens even in my native language sometimes, not only in English.

I usually know what I wanna say, but I struggle to explain it the same way I imagined it in my brain, or I get stuck in an endless loop of going back and forth to the same point.

Sometimes I pause too much, sometimes I overthink the sentence while talking, sometimes I speak so fast, which leads me to stutter or not pronounce the word/letter in the right way, and sometimes I finish speaking and feel like “that’s not what I actually wanted to say”.

Does anyone relate to this?

And how do people become more articulate? Is it practice only? Reading? Speaking Frameworks? Recording yourself?

Do you have any books, videos, or resources for that?

Would appreciate any advice.

I’m 22 years old and recently I started noticing that self doubt is affecting almost everything I do.

Whenever I wanna try something new, my brain immediately goes to “you probably can’t do it” or “you’re gonna fail anyway”. Sometimes it becomes so annoying that I stop before even trying.

And even when I actually do the thing, I keep doubting myself during the whole process. Every choice, every decision, everything.

It also happens when I speak English (it’s my second language). People around me tell me my English is good enough and some even told me it’s really good, but every time I speak I still feel like maybe I said something wrong or weird.

The weird thing is that logically I know I’m not “bad” at things. Like I already did hard things before. But mentally, I still feel like I’m not capable enough.

Did anyone here go through this before?

What actually helped you build confidence for real? Books, habits, experiences, literally anything.

I’m 22 years old, and recently I started noticing that self doubt is affecting almost everything I do.

Whenever I wanna try something new, my brain immediately goes to “you probably can’t do it” or “you’re gonna fail anyway”. Sometimes it becomes so annoying that I stop before even trying.

And even when I actually do the thing, I keep doubting myself during the whole process. Every choice, every decision, everything.

It also happens when I speak English (it’s my second language). People around me tell me my English is good enough, and some even told me it’s really good, but every time I speak I still feel like maybe I said something wrong or weird.

The weird thing is that logically I know I’m not “bad” at things. Like I already did hard things before. But mentally, I still feel like I’m not capable enough.

Did anyone here go through this before?

What actually helped you build confidence for real? Books, habits, experiences, literally anything.

I’m 22 years old, and recently I started noticing that self doubt is affecting almost everything I do.

Whenever I wanna try something new, my brain immediately goes to “you probably can’t do it” or “you’re gonna fail anyway”. Sometimes it becomes so annoying that I stop before even trying.

And even when I actually do the thing, I keep doubting myself during the whole process. Every choice, every decision, everything.

It also happens when I speak English (it’s my second language). People around me tell me my English is good enough, and some even told me it’s really good, but every time I speak I still feel like maybe I said something wrong or weird.

The weird thing is that logically I know I’m not “bad” at things. Like I already did hard things before. But mentally, I still feel like I’m not capable enough.

Did anyone here go through this before?

What actually helped you build confidence for real? Books, habits, experiences, literally anything.

I’m a 22 year old AI engineer, and recently I realized something kinda painful.

My technical skills are honestly pretty good for my age, and I worked on projects that I’m proud of.

But I know people with weaker technical skills who still get better opportunities than I because they communicate better and present themselves better.

And honestly, it opened my eyes a lot.

I feel like my communication skills are holding me back hard, especially when talking about myself, explaining ideas, networking, and interviews, etc.

For people in tech:

How important was communication in your career compared to technical skills?

And how did you improve it? Any Books, Videos, or podcasts? Anything that can help me with that

Because right now I feel like I focused too much on becoming technically good and ignored the “human” side completely.

For the folks who are used to buying things from foreign countries and getting them shipped here to Algeria, can you please inform me of the whole procedure that you walk through each time you want to buy something?

For reference, I stepped upon a clothing brand from the UK that I want to buy from, but I heard that we have shipping problems here in Algeria. How do you do it, guys?

Also, I bought products before from Aliexpress, but I don't think it will be the same procedure, am I wrong?