Confidence and Over-Confidence
I am thinking that I am a self confident person. This helps me allot. When I get failure I keen to find reasons. But at the same time I realized that I was probably overconfident at some occasions. Then what’s the difference between confidence and overconfidence? How do I get to know about it? “Prevention is better that Cure” and I should stop the things before It reflects in my result.
The right time to know about it is the time when you are in the action, when you on the path towards your goal. Confidence means something that you tell to your self. You try to see your-self from others vision and then check your self where you are. You try to encourage your self. This is what a conversation between you and a person that seems like you. Just like self-talk. Confidence is all about keeping your self calm cool and composed. It is also base for self motivation. Whenever you realize that I am trying to show up the things it is over-confidence. This is like you try to show people that you are the best in something. You try to get name and fame from the others. Tough you are really good but this leads you to be an egoist person. So always analyze your self while you are in the action and catch your self if you are over-confident. This will help you. It is something like QA, applied at each level of SDLC.
I have started acting like this. I will post my reply after some time about what happened to me.
My thoughts about this internal conflict.
I had the same internal conflict for years. Since a long time, this conflict has stopped bothering me. To me, there is nothing like over-confidence. Confidence has no limits. Confidence is jumping off the airplane saying “see u there…”. Overconfidence which might be a concern every now and then, might then be defined as something which u are sure of..but dont have any means to accomplish it. Confidence in its good and pure form is your belief in yourself, that you have achieved by consistently proving urself in a field. Confidence does not necessarily have to come from experience. If you do a task for the first time, you can be confident about accomplishing it..even though you have no past experiences to support you. Thats where the lines between confidence and over-confidence start to blur. I follow a small thumb rule, “I am confident if I have a plan or I think I will have a plan at the right time….while overconfidence is just believing the task is over…even though i dont have a plan or the skillset”. So over confidence might not be the right way of life…but its good to be confident… One other way to look at it is, that if you are confident and you fail…it doesnt matter to you, while if you are over-confident and you fail, you have to find a reason to blame something for your failure…
How to find if we are confident in a situation or overconfident?
Oveconfidence is i think….lack of confidence where we try to compensate for our lack of confidence by some artificial confidence…so with overconfidence, we generally have a negative feeling…like fear of failure….
confidence is simple. It has no hidden fears..u dont fear the outcome…its just obvious.
- Rutvij
By: Rutvij on April 11, 2009
at 5:14 pm
Good thoughts, Rutvij.
By: jaykishanparikh on June 3, 2009
at 11:24 am