CONFIDENCE CHEAT CODE Here’s what I realized. It was a sun-breaks-through-the-clouds realization for me. As a teenager, I was painfully shy. So guess what I did? I drank to manufacture fake confidence. I used alcohol as if it was a computer game cheat code. I didn’t need to learn how to motor through levels three to seven. All I had to do to take me from level two (terrified) to level eight (bouncing around a dancefloor to Blur) was to drink. So I did. With gusto. Until I was utterly reliant on it for any sort of socializing.
