Confidence

Confidence and self-confidence are the keys to success. These is the main tools of everyone’s lives as individuals but also society. Cummings (n.d., as cited in Babauta, 2007) suggested “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” They can overcome their fears and tend to be risk takers when pursuing their dreams. However, many successful people who exude confidence rather surprisingly lack self-confidence.…

Common Sense Media conducted a study where they asked teenagers about how social media made them feel, one in five responded that social media has boosted their confidence and only four percent of those questioned reported that social media has negatively impacted their self-confidence. (Wallace) Not only is it boosting self-confidence but productivity in the work place as well. A 2010 study of the ICT (which is the computer/email/internet/cell phone) displayed that frequent usage of ICT…

analysis of observation one and further discussions with parent/ teacher with regards to Thomas’s first and second language acquisition, allowing for a more holistic overview (Hayes, 2014); interventions were put into place for Thomas to promote confidence and speech through specific small group…

The moment I had been waiting for had begun. I was singing my heart out for my annual All State Audition. The butterflies in my stomach almost eating me alive, knowing I had made it the past two years and could not make a mistake, I had to be perfect. In an instant, my eyes wandered and lost my spot in the music which I was currently singing from. I had messed up, big time. There was no way i could recover from this accident. I was sure to be done for. Nothing made sense and there was no reason…

Big City Girl, Small Town Woman Jennifer, or Jen as some like to call her, was born July 24th, 1970, in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, Illinois. Jen Townsend was the name she grew up with through out her high school and college career, but on October 7th, 1995, her life changed when she married David Claeys, a man from a town smaller than the size of her entire high school. They met at Western Illinois University, where she attended college, and majoring in business. After about three years…

wakeboard swiveled side-to-side across the wake. One wave in the distance came hurling towards me, causing me to tumble into a front flip over the wakeboard. Yikes. I didn’t succeed the next time either. Or the one after that. As much as I was losing confidence in the attempt, I was determined to show that I will be successful in my pursuit. The boat circled around just like every other fail. I followed the same routine as I mentally prepared myself for what was to come. The waves were peaking…

away. Arrogance is generally a very annoying, un-classy emotion. Arrogant people are full of themselves and do not care what anyone has to say no matter what. People always seem to get arrogance and confidence mixed up; arrogance is more bragging and thinking you’re above everyone else while confidence is quietly believing in yourself. Many of the examples of arrogance I am going to show you today were said by some of the world’s greatest athletes, musicians, and successful businessmen.…

Confidence Through Confidence If my classmates could describe me in two words it would be, antisocial and quiet. When in reality, I am scared of talking to other people. I wish I was able to confidently talk to others and do things on my own without the help of a friend or parent since I feel that people are constantly judging me. This is a struggle I have daily when leaving my home and having to converse with other people, which is why I decided to conduct an experiment on myself. I’ve…

The most notable counter argument is the one at 15 minutes 35 seconds. The counter argument is, faking something is like feeling like a fraud, because it isn’t the real feeling. They are implying that faking confidence with body poses isn’t actually being truly confident. It’s brought up at the very end, but with the examples the speaker has already given us, there is already proof enough that this argument has been very properly refuted against. If body poses don’t actually make someone…

Coming into college, I had incredibly high hopes for how I thought things were going to pan out during my college career. Socially, I thought I was going to make this huge group of amazing friends who would never leave my side, and they would be the truest friends that I could ever imagine meeting. While I do see some of my friendships going that way, some of the friends that I met at the beginning of the year turned out to be the kind of friends that I wasn’t interested in keeping. I also…