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The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
Russ Harris & Steven Hayes PhD (foreword) · 2014
🎙 Narrated by Graeme Malcolm
78/100
👍 Worth It
The ACT framework's counter-intuitive premise — act in line with your values regardless of whether fear goes away, rather than waiting for confidence to arrive — is the book's real insight, and it's both evidence-based and genuinely useful for perfectionism and performance anxiety. Practical exercises are woven throughout rather than siloed, so the listen is active rather than passive. Graeme Malcolm's measured Scottish delivery is calm and professional, a natural fit for therapy-oriented content.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: good Graeme Malcolm's calm, measured delivery is a natural match for ACT-oriented self-help — professional and unobtrusive.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety80
Substance / usefulness77
Craft & writing76
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy84
Hype vs delivers83
Age-fit74
👁 Human-eye gut-check81
Penny’s verdict78
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