Confidence Vs Knowledge Analysis

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JW Von Goethe makes a very good point about how when we know little is when confidence is used, and when we be begin to doubt ourselves is when we have a knowledge. This raises the question of to what extent can thinking with confidence be better than thinking with knowledge? To help me answer this question I have chosen two AOK and one WOK, which are:The Arts, Human sciences, and Intuition. Thinking with confidence can get you a lot of places. Don’t get me wrong knowledge can get you threw a few doors, but without confidence you can find yourself in a great big whole. Even though Some people think that it's the other way around which in some cases is true. The reason we use confidence is to we fake it till we make it meaning just because …show more content…
You overthink things that are not even that complicated. Like essays I procrastinate the mess out of them because I am not all to confident in them. I want to have all the knowledge, but it comes and bite me in the butt because I end up doing the essay all late and I really don’t get feedback because turned in so late there is no time. This is why it is better to be confident because you don’t second guess yourself, and if anything goes wrong then you will have time to fix it …show more content…
Knowledge and confidence put together nobody can stop you literally. You have knowledge and you are confident to share it and let them know you are not scared to be wrong or to be yourself. Knowledge is very powerful, but it can’t stand alone without confidence. So I encourage you to go out, keep your head up, be confident. If are not do what I always do, fake it til you make it cause I am not a very confident person myself I promise you that you will feel so much better. Never doubt yourself you can do it have some faith. Like I said before confidence is key, but it would help if u had at least had a little bit of knowledge, but not to much, and you don't want to overthink

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