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C onfidence is a fickle thing. bound to say what, because you know that
Acquiring it may be a task you're right and that should be enough. I
deemed impossible and hav- persistently encourage students to step out
ing too much of it and in turn of their comfort zones and speak up, sing
and make a stand when it's needed.
wanting it to diffuse over the
Our communities nowadays have house-
consistency of the attribute, can be even hold environments resulting in smart, stu-
tougher. dious teenagers but if placed on a stage
prepped for a speech they come up blank. I
There are people in the world unwilling firmly believe that to rectify something the
and even too bashful to carry out trivial initiative should first be fishing out the
tasks as simple as inquiring about the price source and root cause of the problem. What
of an object from a salesperson and among makes one student more inclined to speak
them are people bursting with self acclaim up than the other?
and thus incite misleading notions of al-
ways being one hundred percent right and Here's what I think
are more commonly spotted as customers
ready to pounce on the cashier and fight for When I individually visit classes and talk
the silliest things. to students and inquire about their hobbies
or talents, I always receive the same re-
An important question I believe, is that sponse, "I have no talent,", "I can't do any-
how is one meant to find the balance be- thing,", "I'm not good at anything," and
tween these two compulsive personalities? "I'm not going to bother because I know I
How do you configure yourself to think can't." They laugh it off, but in truth this is
highly of yourself but not beyond the point what they firmly believe. And it saddens
that you seem boastful and narcissistic? me so much because all of them, abso-
lutely all of them can make it to great-
What's the right amount of self confi- ness, all of them are worth something
and shouldn't think so lowly of them-
dence needed to become a healthy per- selves.
son? If you are among one of those students ut-
terly convinced that your low self esteem is
It's true that some people are naturally born justified by the mere fact that you don't be-
a little surer than others, more assertive and lieve in yourself enough, I can't tell you
headstrong, but like most things, you can how wrong you are. The world needs you
build this characteristic with time, slowly to speak up, start being more sure and firm
begin to open up to the possibility that yes, in your actions, your way of speech, your
maybe someone in this room will agree attitude and your mind. Take risks, if you
with me, that my opinion is both valid and find speaking in front of a crowd intimidat-
worth something, and that no, no one is go-
ing to make fun of me for believing such
and such or wearing this or liking that. The
fact of the matter is, if you're absolutely
right about something, it matters not who is
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C onfidence is a fickle thing. bound to say what, because you know that
Acquiring it may be a task you're right and that should be enough. I
deemed impossible and hav- persistently encourage students to step out
ing too much of it and in turn of their comfort zones and speak up, sing
and make a stand when it's needed.
wanting it to diffuse over the
Our communities nowadays have house-
consistency of the attribute, can be even hold environments resulting in smart, stu-
tougher. dious teenagers but if placed on a stage
prepped for a speech they come up blank. I
There are people in the world unwilling firmly believe that to rectify something the
and even too bashful to carry out trivial initiative should first be fishing out the
tasks as simple as inquiring about the price source and root cause of the problem. What
of an object from a salesperson and among makes one student more inclined to speak
them are people bursting with self acclaim up than the other?
and thus incite misleading notions of al-
ways being one hundred percent right and Here's what I think
are more commonly spotted as customers
ready to pounce on the cashier and fight for When I individually visit classes and talk
the silliest things. to students and inquire about their hobbies
or talents, I always receive the same re-
An important question I believe, is that sponse, "I have no talent,", "I can't do any-
how is one meant to find the balance be- thing,", "I'm not good at anything," and
tween these two compulsive personalities? "I'm not going to bother because I know I
How do you configure yourself to think can't." They laugh it off, but in truth this is
highly of yourself but not beyond the point what they firmly believe. And it saddens
that you seem boastful and narcissistic? me so much because all of them, abso-
lutely all of them can make it to great-
What's the right amount of self confi- ness, all of them are worth something
and shouldn't think so lowly of them-
dence needed to become a healthy per- selves.
son? If you are among one of those students ut-
terly convinced that your low self esteem is
It's true that some people are naturally born justified by the mere fact that you don't be-
a little surer than others, more assertive and lieve in yourself enough, I can't tell you
headstrong, but like most things, you can how wrong you are. The world needs you
build this characteristic with time, slowly to speak up, start being more sure and firm
begin to open up to the possibility that yes, in your actions, your way of speech, your
maybe someone in this room will agree attitude and your mind. Take risks, if you
with me, that my opinion is both valid and find speaking in front of a crowd intimidat-
worth something, and that no, no one is go-
ing to make fun of me for believing such
and such or wearing this or liking that. The
fact of the matter is, if you're absolutely
right about something, it matters not who is
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