Confidence is… knowing that there is always another chance to face the world tomorrow. That it’s never too late to make amends and start anew. Be kind to yourself but don’t give up trying and moving forward.
Without doubt, the feeling of being of “lower quality” than others can be rather daunting and frustrating. To be able to successfully address them, we can start by understanding the concept itself — or what’s referred to in psychology as the “inferiority complex (IC).” It’s a term that originated by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Alder —the most prominent psychologists of all time–who describe it …
Confidence is… smiling when you are down; walking tall when all you want is to hide under the table; keeping calm despite feeling the storm inside. Because you are stronger than you often believe.
We all know that the Big Five personality traits—openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism—are important personality-determinants. Their varying combination in each of us dictates why we evolve to become who we are. And up until recently, scientists believed that we can’t do a single thing to change this. Or, as the saying goes …