What is self-confidence? What are its manifestations and connotations?

Self-confidence means believing in oneself. It is an inner experience of people fully evaluating their own strength. It is a psychological characteristic that reflects the degree of confidence of an individual in his or her ability to successfully complete a certain activity. It is an important component of self-awareness, an important quality for people's growth and success, and one of the sources of people's subjective initiative. That is, self-confidence is a person's positive feeling about himself or herself.

Showing confidence

Believe that you can learn well, know how to learn well and do it seriously; have a good mental state, be able to face life with a smile, and not easily change your beliefs or give up even if you encounter difficulties and obstacles;

Believe in your social skills, be able to get along well with most people, and interact with them easily and freely; be confident in your own abilities, and believe that as long as you work hard, you can handle everything;

It is good to believe in yourself and be able to evaluate yourself, understand yourself, and accept yourself comprehensively and objectively.

Therefore, self-confidence mainly includes the following contents:

1. Self-knowledge. We often say "know yourself and know your enemy". "Know yourself" means to be able to understand your overall physical and mental condition, including your appearance, temperament, personality and characteristics, hobbies and abilities, learning advantages and methods, strengths and weaknesses.

And this understanding of oneself is based on facts, neither underestimating nor exaggerating.

2. Self-acceptance. Some people think that they are just one of the ordinary people, and they think that they have no special features or strengths, and they are inconspicuous in the crowd, so they think that they are useless. In fact, "no two leaves in the world are alike."

Everyone is a unique individual. In a group photo, you can definitely be found. Isn't that a bag of uniqueness? The arrangement of different strengths and weaknesses becomes your personality, and the combination of different experiences becomes your life. These are all personal uniqueness. Therefore, we need to accept ourselves, who seem ordinary but are actually unique.

3. Self-worth refers to believing in the value of one's own existence and believing that through active and subjective efforts, one will eventually show one's talents and realize one's own value. There are many people with strong wills, such as Helen Keller and Zhang Haidi. Their disabilities may be a burden to society, but through their efforts, they eventually create value for society and become role models. This is all because they firmly believe that everyone's existence is meaningful and valuable. The key is to find and create it yourself.

4. Self-confidence is also manifested as a habitual behavior, which means being able to act in accordance with one's own highest interests, maintaining one's own opinions without excessive anxiety, and exercising one's rights without denying the rights of others. Self-confidence is a personality trait that is malleable. Therefore, it can be improved through behavioral training.