The Power of Confidence

[PierreGringoire]

I personally believe there is a huge gap in understanding each other. The povery of words, varied emotional states, and different expereinces and places in life, etc.

Even when two people hold the same belief. One may hold it with a simplistic-one-attribute belief. While another believes in it more complexly. Both of these individuals beliefs (lets say in a religion) depend on eihter their simplification or complication of the matter.

What is confidence?
I believe it is a strong thing. I'm talking about the confidence that is associated with consistency. Simple example, a comedian who makes their first appearance on SNL, you think is completely lame and ridiculous. Give it a month and he'll be the funniest act you'd ever seen

I intend to make more posts to this thread. I have more to say on this topic

[blazeofglory]

I personally believe there is a huge gap in understanding each other. The povery of words, varied emotional states, and different expereinces and places in life, etc.

Even when two people hold the same belief. One may hold it with a simplistic-one-attribute belief. While another believes in it more complexly. Both of these individuals beliefs (lets say in a religion) depend on eihter their simplification or complication of the matter.

What is confidence?
I believe it is a strong thing. I'm talking about the confidence that is associated with consistency. Simple example, a comedian who makes their first appearance on SNL, you think is completely lame and ridiculous. Give it a month and he'll be the funniest act you'd ever seen

I intend to make more posts to this thread. I have more to say on this topic

This seems somewhat moving and appealing in point of fact. Life is simply full of promises, and there needless to say people have to confide in others and this breeds and bolsters relationship. Of course without confidence in others people cannot do great deeds or cannot be in unity and it is always confidence that holds people together in this world.

confidence is considerably likened to trust, and it is oftentimes identical with trust building if not always.

Confidence in oneself and others is what holds us together and all that brings harmony on us in this world as a matter of fact.

[The Comedian]

Confidence is low self-esteem shamelessly drunk.

[Buh4Bee]

I think it all has to do with faking it. Who cares about what crazy thoughts you have on the inside? Confidence is what you project to other people and what they believe about you, falsely or not.

The idea of relationships and trust and even love is when you are having a true down to earth experience. I don't think confidence plays as important a role in this kind of environment.

I guess I compartmentalize this idea. Confidence is for work and hang around parties you don't want to be at. Who you are is revealed when you are pulling weeds and yelling at the dog.

[PierreGringoire]

We do not know much as a species. Choosing enemies from friends is complete futility. We're all on different grounds and different maturities. The mind is capable of limitless combinations of seemingly opposing beliefs. With innumerable x-factors that predispose an individual to behave in a certain way at a certain time.
So confidence can come in handy. But in no way does this thread try to answer the most important question. "What is truth"/"What is the right path"?
No answer here. Therefore is this thread futile?

[blazeofglory]

Confidence is something that comes spontaneously, and confidence is necessary in every walk of life and without it we cannot work at all.

[Buh4Bee]

I do agree that we do need confidence in all walks of life, including our very close relationships. I believe that we don't have to project a fake air of confidence to the ones we love. We can genuinely feel confident about certain beliefs we may hold, even when conflict arises on the home front.

[blazeofglory]

Confidence is what helps you confided in others.

[Buh4Bee]

Even those you don't know well?

[Hurricane]

Confidence is vital. I don't think it's being false, I think that it's a survival skill. Knowing your abilities or, in times of need, stretching them, is a tremendous help in every aspect of life.
Confidence leads to decisiveness, and with enough confidence and decisiveness (with a dash of knowledge tossed in for good measure), you can do almost anything.

[blazeofglory]

Let us think how we will have confidence? In work through experiences and in others through their behaviors with us, and in ourselves by being a great observer.

[PierreGringoire]

It is interesting to see the inactivity of these forums.

Anyways, confidence is the egg of consistency. Consistency breeds confidence. Confidence reduces stress. Stress reduction increases mind utilization.

Mind utilization gives a more flexibile platform for emotional management--which in turn can make you trigger your own happiness on and off at will.

Once you get to this point, what is the next step? Or is this the end of the little that we control? Or is it only the beginning....

[MarkC]

Confidence is a tricky trait to pin down. By being aware of your own and other people's behaviour you will find the essential ingredients to building confidence.
Thanks..:-)

[blazeofglory]

The single most important thing in a project or anything you do or say is confidence in what you do or say and once it gets abrogated or fades it is hard to go forward in life.

[Lumiere]

Confidence is low self-esteem shamelessly drunk.

Good one, sir. Good one, indeed.

It is interesting to see the inactivity of these forums.

Anyways, confidence is the egg of consistency. Consistency breeds confidence. Confidence reduces stress. Stress reduction increases mind utilization.

Mind utilization gives a more flexibile platform for emotional management--which in turn can make you trigger your own happiness on and off at will.

Once you get to this point, what is the next step? Or is this the end of the little that we control? Or is it only the beginning....

If you've gotten to this last step and can control your own happiness at will, Good God! That would be something. That's more can control than most of us can claim to have, I think, (or perhaps I speak for myself.) More importantly, it's more control than I think most of us would want to have. Where would the value of happiness be if it was as simply attained as turning on a switch? Humans make such a show about how we adore Happiness, how Happiness is the substance of life, how all we ever want is to be Happy. But really, what would life be without struggle? We have to have SOMETHING to do down here by ourselves, after all. So we chase madly after that illusive and addictive phenomenon we call Happiness, and the pursuit occupies us for some 80 or so years.

Confidence shows how weak humans are in their individual resolutions. This is the sheep-trait in humans. Each of us is more likely to trust the other, providing that the other is confident, or at least projects that they are. Someone can be the most barbaric, selfish, dim-witted fool on the face of the planet. So long as they are extreme and have an abundant supply of blind, unyielding confidence, they will be adored, respected. They will get a standing ovation from the world, and what more could one want? The people I admire most are not noble. They are arrogant, dashing, passionate, and blindly confident. THAT is the Power of Confidence. It's akin to stubbornness. It's forcing a certain image of yourself on the world. If you do it completely, you will win every time. They will give in gladly. You will bend their perception of you to whatever you wish.

Now, of course, there is a different breed of confidence that we call "self-assurance," which is having confidence in your own abilities. This is a quiet confidence that isn't insistent on projecting your image in a certain way. But it is also a more ignorant confidence. Anyone who genuinely has confidence in their ability to successfully navigate through life hasn't considered the broader options. We know nothing. We speculate. We speculate well, I think, but we speculate, we grope in the dark, occasionally we guess. But we know virtually nothing.

Conscious confidence is the loud, powerful, arrogant kind.
Genuine confidence is the quiet, sincere kind.
The former tends to be more effective. Let's face it, some of the people we love most as a nation, (be it the US, Europe, wherever) are people pumped full of confidence #1. Why? I do not know. I don't make the rules.