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Essay 4:

How to Increase Self Confidence?

A lot of my students face problems of low self confidence and they want to

know as to how to increase self confidence. In this post I discuss the sub-

ject.

Understanding Self Confidence

Self confidence can be understood as comprising of two facets of our per-

sonality. First is our sense of self efficacy. This means that we see ourselves

capable of mastering skills and achieving goals in a specific field. We believe

that if we learn and work hard in a field we will succeed. This type of confi-

dence leads people to accept difficult challenges, and persist in the face of

setbacks. Example: A child who likes Math and can easily solve his class Math

problems will accept the challenge of solving Math problems of greater diffi-

culty of a higher class. He may not succeed immediately, but will succeed ul-

timately because of his self confidence.

The second facet of self confidence is the idea of self esteem. It implies a

more general sense that we can cope with what is going on in our lives. We

consider ourselves competent at what we do and have a sense that we can

do things if we focus on them. Example: Farhan Akhtar had the belief that he

could play the role of Milkha Singh in the famous movie. He believed that he

could look and act like Milkha Singh. He did a great job. The most important

part was his self opinion ( self confidence).

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