Lack Of Confidence

During my early years I was bullied in and out of school. My first experience with bullying started when I was in daycare. A girl named Kelly started bullying me. Every time I saw her she would talk about either my hair or my clothes or the way I looked. One day, my brother and Kelly’s sister were watching Kelly and I. Kelly’s aunt had told her to leave me alone. And after her aunt left the room, Kelly started pushing me to see what I would do and after a while I got really angry, so I punched her in the face. As her aunt came back in the room, she saw Kelly on the floor with me standing over her. Kelly’s Aunt then said, “Did I not tell you to leave her alone.” After that experience I knew that I had the

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In chapter 6 of Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success, G. Richard Shell argues that confidence is central for achievement. Confidence, Shell writes is part of discovering your true self and is related to our sense of purpose and our ability to interpret failure the right way. Confidence can be broken into two stages. The first type is to give strength in ones skills. The second type is to put to the test in ones skills.

Expertise is something many people look at as coincidence. They see it as something that merely happens to someone. Malcolm Gladwell, however, studied how one attains this status. He proposed that it takes 10,000 hours of practice put into something to truly become an expert at it. Proficiency at a skill does not come automatically. It takes time and effort to really master anything.

Grant and Taylor (2014) conducted a study which identified six essential communication traits that can aid women to demonstrate confidence: (1) starting strong, (2) staying succinct, (3) dimensionalizing content, (4) owning voice, (5) controlling movement, and (6) projecting warmth (p. 73). The authors found that the way a women talks about her accomplishments have

The reason that I chose this topic is because I have seen the impact confidence, or lack of, has made on my practice. Confidence is an important aspect of care; not only because of what it symbolizes, but the direct effect it has on the patients and a nurse’s mindset.

“There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.” says John Unitas.

themselves. They felt as though they could dress and act however they wanted. The term

A man who believes in egoism. A man whose motivation is his desires and interests

Mentees that are struggling with confident are those who find it hard to open up. The might shrug off questions or give closed ended responses to questions.

By being confident, you are showing others that they can trust you and count on you to do what is right, even if you do not do it very well. If your doctor was to walk into the operating room and says he does not seem very confident about what he is doing, are you going to think of your doctor as being a leader? Angela says, “Be confident in your power to be the change”. By being confident about what you are doing is changing the way others look at something. Someone may not think their artwork is very good and they decide not to turn it in, but if they see someone else have the courage to turn in their not so good art work, chances are the other student will become confident enough to turn his in. Having courage is a very important key to becoming a

The confidence is built upon the esteem and the belief in oneself to be good or worthy enough to be capable of aiding others.

Being confident, is one the most respectable character trait someone can have. Because having confidence makes people able to fully accept themselves. Merriam- Webster’s definition of confidence can mean one of two things depending on how it’s used. The first definition of confidence is a feeling or consciousness of one’s powers or of reliance on one’s circumstances. Having confidence in someone is a big deal because it means putting trust in someone to carry through with something. Putting too much confidence in someone because is that chance of getting let down. Now the second definition from Merriam-Webster’s dictionary is a feeling or belief that you can do something well or succeed at something. Someone who has confidence believes in

More and more opportunities automatically come the way of the person with a good self-confidence. In short, success flows to those who have a genuine self-confidence.

The number of people that a person can speak to measures his or her personality. However, the confident of a speech links the courage of persuading, together enhanced by experience.