Confidence Comes After the Courage, Here’s Why That Matters #CourageFirst #ConfidenceGrowth

21 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Chrissy Myers arguing that confidence follows courageous action: you must first take courageous steps into fearful situations, then—after surviving or thriving—you build a "bank of confidence" to apply to future challenges. The speaker emphasizes that the experience may be less or as scary as anticipated, but doing it anyway is valuable and repeatable.

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Until you have, you know, take that courage and get into the thick of it, you won't be able to fully have the confidence after to say, I actually survived, I actually thrived. I actually accomplished something that I didn't think that I could do. I moved past my fear. It's not as scary as I thought it would be, or it is. It was just as scary as I thought it would be, and I did it anyway. But it's definitely a valuable place that you want to get to, that you want to strive to get to, to build a bank of confidence, because you take that into the next situation, because there's always going to be a next situation.