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I think that often, the best way to develop confidence is to engage in the activity about which you aren't feeling confident. I have found interviewing.io to be very helpful for this. Once you have some measure of success with a live interview, it can be easier to keep going.

I have also found that mindfulness meditation has helped me put my focus where it needs to be. It's done this in two ways: 1) during meditation, if I feel anxious thoughts, I can act as an independent observer of those thoughts and simply notice them without judging them. 2) During an interview, if I feel anxious thoughts, I can recognize those thoughts as being normal without being overwhelmed by them. Once I do this, I can more easily put them aside so I can focus on doing the best that I can on the task at hand.