"You've got a story to tell, and a place to go home to, yet you choose to hide..."
Can a déjà vu become a self-fulfilling prophecy or can one really fake it 'till you make it?
Is confidence really just not thinking about things and just doing everything depending on intuition, without thinking about anything except the obvious? (Occam's Razor?) Where's the thin line between confidence and ignorance then? "Going into a lion's den is not courage - a child can do that. Courage is going in to bring the child out."
Star Wars, in hindsight, offers a lot of related thoughts about this - Yoda says "Do... or do not. There is no try.", and "[Not believing] is why you fail", and also, conversely, Darth Vader starts strangling people when he finds their "lack of faith disturbing". Is the Force really just pure confidence then? Considering how anger is supposed to feed off the Force for the dark side, I might as well believe so.
Confidence is catch 22 - if you're not, you're not, because you're not. How to acquire it? Certainly not by thinking, as stated above - but how to build something into your subconscious? How to build routine for something that's only required in certain situations? It's certainly not like football, where you get into a scenario every 30 seconds and after a while it builds into your reflexes - of course, great football players are seen to perform unthinkable ideas simply, because they have the confidence to do that tiny little heelflick in the last second: not a move you can practice, not the situation where you should do it, but they do and it works.
Sticking to the football comparison, I noticed recently during football that something, however, works: Being a goalkeeper, I don't really possess any considerable dribbling skill, simply because it's not needed. That makes me weary of situations where the last defender is having a problem and decides to pass the ball to me, because I know I'm alone and any fuckup will result in a goal. This caused me to start thinking of possible solutions every time it looked like such scenario will happen, even though I never actually had to do something. After several such occasions, I was mentally ready for it and when it happened, I just routinely looked up beforehand and perfectly cleared the ball with a slight tap. My conclusion: To get ready for the deep end, you have to face the risk of jumping in frequently.
Confidence is the mindkiller.
Is confidence really just not thinking about things and just doing everything depending on intuition, without thinking about anything except the obvious? (Occam's Razor?) Where's the thin line between confidence and ignorance then? "Going into a lion's den is not courage - a child can do that. Courage is going in to bring the child out."
Star Wars, in hindsight, offers a lot of related thoughts about this - Yoda says "Do... or do not. There is no try.", and "[Not believing] is why you fail", and also, conversely, Darth Vader starts strangling people when he finds their "lack of faith disturbing". Is the Force really just pure confidence then? Considering how anger is supposed to feed off the Force for the dark side, I might as well believe so.
Confidence is catch 22 - if you're not, you're not, because you're not. How to acquire it? Certainly not by thinking, as stated above - but how to build something into your subconscious? How to build routine for something that's only required in certain situations? It's certainly not like football, where you get into a scenario every 30 seconds and after a while it builds into your reflexes - of course, great football players are seen to perform unthinkable ideas simply, because they have the confidence to do that tiny little heelflick in the last second: not a move you can practice, not the situation where you should do it, but they do and it works.
Sticking to the football comparison, I noticed recently during football that something, however, works: Being a goalkeeper, I don't really possess any considerable dribbling skill, simply because it's not needed. That makes me weary of situations where the last defender is having a problem and decides to pass the ball to me, because I know I'm alone and any fuckup will result in a goal. This caused me to start thinking of possible solutions every time it looked like such scenario will happen, even though I never actually had to do something. After several such occasions, I was mentally ready for it and when it happened, I just routinely looked up beforehand and perfectly cleared the ball with a slight tap. My conclusion: To get ready for the deep end, you have to face the risk of jumping in frequently.
Confidence is the mindkiller.