So true, confidence doesn’t really come naturally. It has to be a process and a set of results which have worked in our favour. And the great news is that it can be built over time and made stronger. I couldn’t agree more, the trouble with faking is that it becomes more difficult and more so, our mind knows that it is not really there and it is not really helping us anyway. A better thing might be to simply accept what is and then decide what we are going to do about it and take things ahead in our stride :)

Thank you Fayaz :). I agree self confidence truly is not easy to come by. Especially when we are doing something new, it takes more effort to get that confidence. I agree with your line of thought. It is most famously called the impostor theory which makes us question ourselves a lot. Getting out of that can sound daunting at first but it really is a brilliant endeavour to come out of it :) . thank you for these thoughts Fayaz. They’re definitely a value addition :)

True Sunita, it has to be the strength of character which makes the most impact. The other incidents drive us towards various outcomes. What we make of them and how we respond to them are going to make the biggest difference..

Thank you Mohit. I like that – an original is way more powerful than an imitation. Unless we do something of our own, the returns will also be very limited. Not much good is going to come out of that!!

Thank you Alex :). It is a very tricky thing for me – I feel that I constantly keep moving between the confident zone and the less confident zone. I guess it all finally boils down to the consistency, the more consistent we are at something, the better we get at defining it as a part of our personality. And as long as we are up to it and accept the reality, we are headed to some real progress. If not, I guess we can deny our way out of this lifetime, after all – none of us has too long anyway to keep up with an unwilling behaviour to improve.