The Office: Why Pam's Confidence Journey Failed, Explained

Unpacking The Office's Pam's journey of confidence and struggle to believe in herself, why it was so difficult for her, the big thing holding her back, and why (no matter how much progress she seemed to make) she always ended up backsliding


The Office’s Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) was a rather quiet and unassuming person, but she had a surprisingly chaotic personal journey over the course of the show’s run. While she did make some strides, the show never seemed to really want to let her grow and change in a lasting way. So let’s take a closer look at Pam’s journey of confidence to see what worked, where things went wrong, what the true takeaways from her story are, and why no matter what her story is still super relatable!

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:33 Unconfident & afraid to dream
02:43 Finding hope for more from life
05:19 The painful cycle of trying and failing
07:58 Backsliding into old habits
10:27 Having to start your journey all over again...
11:57 The most important takeaway from Pam's story


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