Two speakers argue that confidence comes from showing up despite fear, not from winning. Your future self will be proud you tried and failed rather than never attempted it, because trying teaches you something.
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A lot of people ask, how do I get confident? Right. How do I build confidence in myself? And they think, I have to go do something and I have to succeed. That's not necessarily the truth. Sometimes I think a lot of our confidence comes from feeling fear doing it anyways. Maybe not having the results that we actually wanted to, but in turn looked at it and said, I'm really proud that I showed up for myself. Yes. And that builds confidence in you. Huge time.
When you show up for you, that's big. The fear of failure is really thinking about my future self and saying, would my future self be proud that I didn't take the shot? Or more proud that I actually did take the shot? I failed. I learned something from it, and it led to something even better. After that failure or that loss.