The Importance of confidence is as important as awareness in our life. I already explained the importance of awareness in my previous article. Now I am going to explain and share my experience about the importance of confidence. How confidence is important in our life. I would say
“Confidence is the key to win and get success in life.”
We can’t achieve anything without having confidence. I worked with various people in my 16 years corporate journey. I observed that 20% knowledge and 80% confidence is sufficient to grow fast in our career. I found most of the people have only a 20–30% skill set but they have 70–80% confidence. I feel that it was the opposite in my case.
You will be surprised that I switched my job just for a 5–10% hike only without thinking that it was justified or not.
Why?
Due to lack of awareness?
Due to lack of confidence?
My communication was one of the reasons but there was too much lack of confidence in me. I remember how scared I was in the initial days of my career. There are a lot of factors responsible like from where you passed out, how aware you are about life, what are your surroundings including some genetic reasons as I think.
Confidence builds from learning. If you have a lot of knowledge in each and every area of life you will find yourself much more confident. I observed that after spending 16 years in corporate. No matter if it’s useful or not, just gain knowledge by reading lots of books. But I would encourage you to read your passion related books if possible. If you read your passion related books then that would work like a booster in your career. But to get overall knowledge of life we should read some successful people’s stories
Learning and teaching others really increases our confidence level. That is one of the reasons I have started learning and sharing my thoughts with all of you. I have started building my confidence by learning and sharing my thoughts.
Why should I not share my learnings to whom I care a lot.
Why should I not share my thoughts with the people who respect me a lot?
So, I started. I do not say that I am perfect. Nobody is perfect. But something is better than nothing. I think there is no harm if you can learn from someone else’s mistakes.
Why should you repeat the same mistakes which someone else already faced, right?
Conclusion
Confidence is the key to win and get success in life. Learning, teaching and sharing knowledge with others increases our confidence. Confidence builds by reading a lot of books. Read your passion related books first to increase your growth. Follow some successful people to learn from them. Once confidence builds we will become unstoppable in life.