The document discusses the importance of self-confidence and provides various examples of successful individuals who overcame failures. It outlines tips for building self-confidence, the dangers of overconfidence, and emphasizes the necessity of action over results. The overall message is to embrace self-belief and persist despite challenges to achieve success.

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SELF CONFIDENCE
Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
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Confidence is other name for Winning
Confidence comes
naturally with success
but, success comes
only to those, who
are confident so,
begin your day with
great confidence.

3. Repeated Failure, Confidence Stuck
Abraham Lincoln had two
business ventures fail, lost 8
different elections and had a
complete nervous breakdown
before becoming president in
1816.
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Disney dreamer lacked ideas
Walt Disney was turned down by over a hundred banks
when he tried to get funding to develop Disneyland. He was
also fired from his job at a newspaper for "lacking ideas".

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KFC
Colonel Sanders (creator of Kentucky Fried Chicken) was
told "No" by over a thousand restaurants for more than a
year while he lived in his car trying to sell his chicken recipe .

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Godaddy
Bob Parsons - founder and CEO of GoDaddy.com
overcame a lot of hurdles in pursuit of his dream. He
definitely was not an overnight success and experienced a
lot of failure on the way. But, he kept his vision in his mind
at all times and says, "I spent very little time looking back or
feeling sorry for myself."

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Speech of Confidence
The speech that started with the confident narration of "Sisters and
brothers of America .." forced the audience to give a 2 minute
standing ovation to Swami Vivekananda. Later the confidence of
swami ji mesmerised everyone in the audience of World's Parliament
of Religion in Chigaco in 1893.

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Let's Read it from Bhagvad Gita
• कर्मण्ये वाधिकारस्ते र् फलेषु कदाचना
कर्मफलेह्तुर भुरर्ा ते संगोस््वकर्ामनी॥
Karmanye vadhikaraste ma phaleshu kadachna
Karmaphalehtur bhurma te sangostvakarmani.
Chapter 2, 47th shloka
You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the
fruits of action। Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and
never be attached to not doing your duty.
• This sentence was actually used by Lord krishna to infuse CONFIDENCE in
Arjun to focus on Actions and not the results. (Results here mean the Lust for
achieving it, not the Goal to be realised.)
• Message is that it is the Action that gives Confidence and Planning alone can
not lead you anywhere.

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OUTLINE
• Understanding Self Confidence and
related terms.
• Freedom from Doubt.
• Confidence Story.
• Tips for Self-Confidence.
• Avoiding Overconfidence.
• Advantages of Self-Confidence.
• Summary
• Pledge
• Poem
• References

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UNDERSTANDING
SELF CONFIDENCE
Each time we face our
fear, we gain strength,
courage, and
confidence in the doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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Dictionary Meaning
• "Freedom from doubt; belief
in yourself and your abilities."
• This time the dictionary
meaning is quite precise.

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Do Not Doubt • Doubt is opposite of Self-
Confidence.
• Doubt leads to state of
confusion.
• Confusion hampers your
planning.
• Confusion thus leads to
Inaction.

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Less worry for failure
• Worry of Negative Consequences
gives doubt and hence an state of
inaction and hence reduces the
confidence.
• Worrying about "Disapproval by
others" is still more detrimental for
Self-Confidence.

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Related Terms
• Self Esteem
Pride in oneself
• Self Efficacy
Power to produce desired effect
• Negative Confidence
Surety of inability to perform something
• Overconfidence
Confidence beyond ability or show off of
ability to tease others.
• Ego
Feeling of superiority over others
• Confidence on Others
Surety about others or team members to
achieve desired goal.

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Freedom from Doubt
“The greatest
barrier to success is
the fear of failure."

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HANGING ON ROPE
• Doubt is like hanging on a
rope. In a situation between
belief or disbelief.
• It is surely dangerous if I do
no stretch enough to collect
the wisdom from both
hands.
SO WHEN IN DOUBT
EXPAND YOUR
HORIZONS.

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EXPAND HORIZONS
• To Collect more knowledge.
• To take support of other
people.
• To be ready for harder work.
• To broaden the outlook.

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Doubt What
• Doubt about limitation to solve a particular
problem. Don't make it a general doubt on
yourself.
• Never doubt the intentions of the problem
provider. Remember, all problems are always
given by almighty GOD.

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CONFIDENCE STORY
"Self trust is the first
secret of success"
Emerson

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STORY1: Boy and the old man - 1
• Boy: I think I have a problem.
• Old Man: Tell me, what is
troubling you.
• Boy: When I am in a group of
people, I hesitate to speak.
Others don't give me much
attention. This affects me
negatively.
• Old Man: Your self confidence is
not so high. I suggest you some
exercises. It may not be easy,
but if you persist, you are going
to see results.

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STORY1: Boy and the old man - 2
• Six Months Later ……………….

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STORY1: Boy and the old man - 3
• Boy: It worked Sir!.
• Old Man: O really! Tell me
what happened.
• Boy: Now I can talk and
participate well in a group.
• Old Man: Ok! Keep doing the
same exercises.
• Boy: But I don't have any
problem now. I am cured.

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STORY1: Boy and the old man - 4
• Old Man: When you reach the
level where you can be
amongst people who do not
pay attention to you and you
can still be self-confident, that
is when you will be cured.

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AVOIDING OVER CONFIDENCE
The gain in self-confidence of
having accomplished a
tiresome labour is immense.
Arnold Bennett (British
novelist)

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Over Confidence
• It is an attitudinal problem
• Can come by habit of hiding of
sharable information.
• Leads to EGO.
• Person avoids helping others.
• Person is lonely at heart.
• Indication of shallow and
limited knowledge.

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Over Confidence Examples:
• I can do it better than you.
• I won't tell you, do it yourself.
• This is my copy only. Get one
for yourself. Please don't
always beg for things.
• No one can ever defeat me.
• I made this place, solely with
my efforts only.

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Understanding Fallacies of Over Confidence
• Always remember, Results are due
to hard work of any person. So no
point boasting about your
capabilities. Things can change any
day.
• Over Confidence can lead to lesser
efforts, so be careful.
• Over Confidence can spoil
relationship with others.
Relationships are sometimes more
valuable than results.

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TIPS FOR INCREASING
SELF CONFIDENCE
"As is your
confidence, so is
your capacity"

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SELF CONFIDENCE FORMULA
• SELF-CONFIDENCE = BELIEF x YOU – DOUBTS / YOU
Belief multiplied by you minus doubts divided by you.
• "SELF BELIEF" and "NO DOUBT ON ONCE OWN
CAPABILITIES" is the first rule of gaining self confidence

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Praise Others Frequently
• If you praise others frequently,
chances are that you will also be
praised by them quite sometimes.
• This could provide you a perfect
dose of self-confidence.
• Praising the people in your peer
group is even more important.

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Speak-Up your Mind
• Every one has his/her own
views about situations and
happenings.
• Speak up in every group
discussion at least once.
• Try to join groups where you
find such opportunities more
often.
• Snatch your turn without
hurting others.

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SMILE Wins Hearts, Looses Ego
• Practicing a smiling gesture
during interpersonal
interactions can do wonders to
your Self-Confidence.
• Smile also helps you to loose
your EGO and win Hearts of
others much easily then you
think it is possible.
• A smile can make most ugly
persons look beautiful.
• A smile is a better facial
exercise than being sad, hence
it can pump more oxygen
towards your head, thus
making your brain give better
responses.

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Remove Social Fears
• Like for Silence: Others are silent, because they
are also fearful. You initiate, they will also oblige.
• Language Mistakes: Others also commit lot of
language mistakes. It is not a crime. Speaking out
reduces mistakes day by day.
• Nothing important to share: Reality of everyone is
quite interesting. We are Heroes of our own
movie of life. Sharing allows us to know more
stories of others.
• Problem of Physical Symptoms: Heart rate
increase, breathing anomaly, perspirations etc.
are not due to disease, but are due to lack of
confidence. Remember this is what you want to
remove your social fears for. Come On! Have a
better excuse.
• Weak Memory: Memory is nothing but an
almirah for keeping information. It is never weak.
You process of keeping things might be faulty.
Give a little try, it will not let you down.

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Physical Tips
• Walk a little faster.
• Stand Straight.
• Dress Properly.

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Advantages of Self Confidence
"If my mind can
conceive it, and my
heart can believe
it, I know I can
achieve it."
Jesse Jackson

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The Second Step
• If WILL POWER is the first step,
next step towards Goal is surely
SELF-CONFIDENCE that leads
to a positive ACTION.

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Social Strength - Help arrives faster
• A self-confident person enjoys
the trust of others in the society
and thus help arrives faster in
case of any difficult situation.

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Judgmental accuracy
• Self confidence provides the
necessary insight about the
abilities and thus Goal setting
related accuracy is actually
better. In terms of what can be
achieved and in what time.

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Self Satisfaction
• A self confident person has less
chance of getting stressed as
the person takes a planned
path and even the act of
facing risks is part of the plan.
This gives an overall self
satisfaction.

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Self Realisation
• This the ultimate NEED of any
individual. With the time of
achieving all other lower level
needs a person moves to this
state using the ladder of Self –
Confidence.

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SELF CONFIDENCE SUMMARY
"All you need in this life
is ignorance and
confidence; then success
is sure."
Mark Twain

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Quick Revisit
• Self Confidence is freedom from
doubts and a state of Self –
belief.
• There is a thin line between
Overconfidence and Self-
Confidence. Avoid crossing the
boundary.
• Persistence of efforts is required
for confidence building.

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Final Tips
• Be Yourself
• Expand Your Horizons
• Praise Others
• Smile often
• Speak Out
• Remove Social Fears
• Walk fast
• Stand Straight
• Dress well
• Act Always

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SELF CONFIDENCE PLEDGE
Let's absorb the things inside.

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PLEDGE.
I ____<Your Name>_____ take a
pledge, that I will make best possible
efforts, to remove all my doubts, about
my true capabilities, and will freely
and wisely apply my skills, to the tasks
allotted to me, or the tasks I choose to
perform.
I shall be committed to my goals, by
turning all possible difficulties, to work
in my favour, by using my SELF –
CONFIDENCE.

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References
• www.wikipedia.org
• www.mindtools.com
• nomoreholdingback.com
• pickthebrains.com
• Justbewell.com

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