WHAT IS CONFIDENCE: VARIOUS DEFINITIONS
WHAT IS CONFIDENCE: VARIOUS DEFINITIONS Confidence means believing in yourself and in your abilities – not in an arrogant way, but in a realistic, secure way. What is confidence? A bunch of you already noticed the benefit of having a nice and tidy definition of an abstract concept like confidence or courage. And maybe you already figured out how much I love scientific definitions. So what does confidence or self-confidence actually mean? First we are going to take it way back and look at where the word confidence actually comes from before we look at how modern research defines it. Etymology Confidence originates from the Latin word confidere , which means "to be sure," "to believe in," or "to have full trust." So when we slap "self...