Confidence: A choice or chance.

Fascinating! Thank you for that enlightening post about confidence. I, too, regard confidence as a matter of choice. By perceiving and encountering problems and opportunities as being an opportunity for greater confidence, i have developed self-confidence. It helped me a lot in every aspect of my life. Now i don't care much about negative people's opinions and live my life to the fullest releasing me from the shackles of fear and phobias. He he he. Anyway, good day to you, let's be fairly confident and not overconfident. Cheers~

Confidence definitely is a choice. we need to be comfortable with our own skin and it just naturally radiates to others.

Well, yes you're right it's a matter of choice. For me who is an introvert, I could say that I don't really have self-confidence. I am a shy person. But there are times that my confidence were also tested because of my work. I am among the front liners in our office being the administrative officer. And thanks for your enlightening discussion.

Confidence is something that I always wanted to have for most of the time, but if I have it, I eventually gain the momentum to do whatever or even how it takes, I will do my best to work on something, just to achieve it. Currently, I'm in a roll on htings but I keep myself to be assertive at all times. Not to aggressive and not too passive. A lot of things in my life right now that i need confidence booster - studies, career and have a good plan for the future. Thanks

That's true confidence is much more than just a state of mind it may make your way to the top but it need other things as well to be in the top. Dedication is what you put in (efforts) and with how much devotion. These two words make up dedication. Consistency if added with willingness (a sense of intense willingness) makes up determination. Consistency is needed to show up every time when it need to and the willingness or the will power is that what makes you eager to not sit back and weep but to reconcile and refit yourself to fight even harder every time when you were pushed back. These thing makes up other things like skills and when these are exercised over a time makes up your traits (the real one).

I believe CONFIDENCE is by choice rather than by chance and it takes practice to gain it. Failing on doing something because you are not confident to execute it does not make you a less better person. Recovering from that failure and learning from that mistake are the choices that you should grab in order to help you build your CONFIDENCE. If in the future your confidence will be again be tested the experiences and the choices that you took will come into use thus help booster the same. Never give up try and try until you succeed.

For me, it's more of a chance. I envy people who are so confident especially speaking in front of many people. Why can't I do that? Well, because of my experiences in childhood I became a shy person. I always feel inferior with confident people. Now, Im still in the process of going out of my shell. I try hard to reach out and make new friends. I realize it's not as difficult as it seemed.

I think confidence is a choice but we can achieve it gradually not overnight. We slowly build our confidence by doing things that fulfills us then confidence grows.

I think improving your confidence is a choice. you have to boost your confidence to empower yourself. be a great man.

i believe it is a combination of both. people tend to be confident when they had a situation in life that slumped down their self esteem and they realize that to be able to lift their spirit up, is to have a lot of faith on themselves. but i believe that it is a 70% choice and 30%chance.

Confidence, in any situations, is a choice, it must be. No matter what obstacle you came from, no matter hard or easy it was, you have learned something from it,at least.Confidence will be one of your greatest tools to simplify each of your tasks, great or little.

Confidence is very different from bragging. You are confident when you know what you can and can't do and can downright admit that. You brag when you talk but can't walk the talk. Confidence springs from your human experience and it should still be humbling because you are made aware of what your true caliber is. Being confident will always allow room for improvement, and consequently, you become a better you.

Absolutely a choice! In my own experience, public speaking is truly frightening. There are different settings in which I am talking to people I know at all, some with people I know and I do not know, and people whom I do not know. But confidence is always a matter of choice. I am able to talk to anyone with the choice of having confidence. I extremely suggest, we just have to be prepared so our confidence will boost out.