Self-confidence
is self-awareness of what one is capable of doing. Self-praise is exaggerating
one’s abilities before others with a view to misinform others of what one is
not capable of doing. Self-confidence multiplies by making use of the
opportunities one gets by attempting to handle more and bigger challenges.
Self-praise deteriorates one’s self-confidence because he avoids taking up new
challenges lest his failures burst the myth he had tried to circulate while
getting involved in self-praise.
Many, in this world of rat-race, think that self-praise is essential
to jump into the bandwagon of achievements and successes. Maybe, they are able
to achieve some success; but, throughout their lives, they remain deprived of
the happiness of being creative. Creativity, once again, is a great booster of
self-confidence. Hence, relying on self-confidence, not on self-praise, one
always finds him moving up on a ladder; while the smartest of the policies
based on self-praise, lead one to a path that is blocked, sooner or later.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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