The topic of today's short talk is what is confidence.
Confidence is the consistent felt experience of success, however there's a mystery in the word confidence that can Elevate our understanding of the concept even further.
So, there's a mystery in the word confidence that is revealed by examining its etymology. confidence is a word from Latin it comes from the words Con meaning with, and Fidelis meaning faith.
Confidence literally means with faith or Faithfully, which is kind of weird. In modern parlance when we talk about confidence we usually don't think we're talking about faith.
So, what's going on ?, why might confidence mean Faithfully?. Well, when do you most need confidence ?, you need confidence when you're entering into a situation where you don't yet know the outcome. You don't yet know, whether you actually will be able to emerge victorious or you don't yet know whether you'll actually be able to do what is asked or expected of you.
You haven't done it yet, you can't have evidence that proves that you will because you haven't done it yet. So, in the absence of evidence that you either can or will do it.
In order to take action you need to have belief beyond the evidence, which is what faith is. Confidence is faith in yourself. you really have no good reason to believe that you can do it , but you're going to believe anyway, and you believe it anyway because belief motivates action.
This is why they say that faith can move mountains, without faith no action is possible and with even a little faith great Endeavors are accomplished. That's because confidence is faith in your own ability to overcome adversity as it inevitably presents itself on your path.
Confidence says, “I have no idea and I don't know what's going on around me. Just one thing ro remember, I have faith that I will be able to overcome it. I will and should find a way, I have no evidence that I will succeed but I have faith in my own ability to rise to the occasion.”
That is the mystery of the word confidence, it is to act with faith with respect to one's own ability or success. Hopefully that makes sense
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