Partly it's humility. The more I learn, the more I learn how much I don't know. The more people I meet, the more I realize how awesome people are. Self-promotio

Partly it's humility. The more I learn, the more I learn how much I don't know. The more people I meet, the more I realize how awesome people are. Self-promotion in this context feels false. Heh, as long as you think this, you paradoxically should give yourself carte blance to go for what you want with confidence. Why? Because there isn't some perfect confidence level waiting beyond where you are at now; acceptance that one doesn't know everything is actually the highest possible position, confidence-wise, because at that point you have seen the truth of things and decided to become self-correcting. People who feel that they are confident to do/know anything are actually one rung lower than true humility (although it's easy for a humble person to think those people have found some truth that we have yet to find, and give the cocksure more credit than they deserve). It's when one loses true humility that one should watch out (Dunning-Kruger effect and all that). Life is a balancing act between being too certain and being not enough certain. The holy grail of confidence is to become so without also becoming delusional and leaving oneself open to mistake. I hope I made my point clear enough :) I spend a lot of time thinking about confidence vs delusion, and how to attain true confidence, but it's not always easy to unpack my thoughts for someone else's benefit.