Confidence

Jul. 27th, 2005 09:13 am
edg: (Actions have consequences)
[personal profile] edg
It seems to me that there are two components to confidence:

  • A persistent belief that you have a reasonable chance of success; and

  • A willingness to acknowledge failure and accept its consequences.


(The two are intertwined; acknowledging failure and accepting its consequences doesn't necessarily mean that you can't try again, which is where the persistent belief that you have a reasonable chance of success comes in.)

Lacking any belief that you have a reasonable chance of success is pessimism - you're not only willing to acknowledge failure but expecting it.

Lacking a persistent belief that you have a reasonable chance of success is false confidence - as soon as you fail, you'll be back to pessimism.

Lacking a belief that you have a reasonable chance of success - believing, instead, that you have a perfect chance of success - is arrogance.

Lacking a willingness to acknowledge failure and accept its consequences is delusion.

Lacking both - believing that you can't succeed and being unwilling to acknowledge failure - is also delusion, but one that leads to isolationism; if you can't succeed and won't accept failure, then the only course of action is not to try at all.

As it appears to me, then, the key to self-confidence is to abandon the fear of failure and to acknowledge the chance of success. Ipso facto, the key to gaining self-confidence is to figure out how to abandon the fear of failure and to acknowledge the chance of success.

Any thoughts? Am I completely off-base?

Date: 2005-07-27 08:19 pm (UTC)
wednesday: (Default)
From: [personal profile] wednesday
'Cause you've done research, you've got prior artistic training, and you have a strong familiarity with other such material?

I admit, I only apply this stuff to myself. Other people I just don't get.

Date: 2005-07-27 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spooksix.livejournal.com
If you're trying to write a humourous comic strip ... that'd hard. Comedy is hard, unless you're naturally a funny person who sees lots of funny stuff in life anyway.

I used to be like that. Then ... life sucked me dry and I became bitter and dry like a leaf. Other people's humor makes me laugh, but ... I only seem to succeed with making word-puns and conversational humour.

Drama, I could probably do Drama. Just create some personalities and watch them destroy each other. Ok, gotta go game. Ciao.

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