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> Confidence is the memory of success This really stood out to me as something true and obvious yet never before stated in such plain language.
by alsetmusic 3y ago
> Confidence is the memory of success
This really stood out to me as something true and obvious yet never before stated in such plain language.
- nextworddev 3y agoExperience isn’t the only source of confidence though
- jxnlco 3y agoauthor here, I agree, but i feel like i've had so many self esteem issues growing up, its the only way i can believe it. Confidence is just from working really fucking hard. but again these are the lies i tell myself :)
- Aeglaecia 3y agoi expect personal experience to be the most heavily weighted source of confidence
- nextworddev 3y agomost people have limited experience. Thus if you are deriving confidence mainly from experience, you will have hard time bootstrapping confidence for a very long time. 2c
- jxnlco 3y agowhich is definitly the case for me, but at this point it just comes from the fact that ok, i just know i have the capacity to work hard so i dont the confidence will come
- herbertl 3y agoIt's a really good counterweight to "You're only as good as your last ___," a narrative which leads a person to feel frightened/shaken after a failure. Remembering past successes in times like that can be nice grounding. I've always liked Julia Evans' brag document, which presumes you and your co-workers won't remember your past successes: https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/ https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/
- hackable_sand 3y agoAlso consider confidence as the potential for success. Prospective motivation is empowering.
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