My take on confidence

/ Victor Ojei

Who is the most confident person you know?

What is confidence?

Confidence is believing in one’s self and abilities to handle challenges, take risks, and achieve goals. Confidence helps one try new things, stay motivated, and bounce back from setbacks.

What is the importance of confidence?

Some of the importance of confidence are:

  1. Confidence help improve overall performance. When one believe in themself, they are more likely to do well in what they do.
  2. Confidence build resilience in individuals. It helps one stay strong through difficult times.
  3. Confidence helps enhance relationships, it boost communicative skills in individuals.

What confidence is not:

There are a few misconceptions with confidence. A lot of individuals often mix it up, and end up displaying an undertone of their own insecurities.

  1. Being rude does not necessarily mean one is confident.
  2. Always trying to dominate in everything, such as in conversations, activities, or in a relationship, doesn’t necessarily mean one is confident. Sometimes confidence is in just relaxing and letting things flow normally.
  3. Always in defiance doesn’t necessarily means one is confident. Defiance should be based on critical reasoning, logic, ethics and moral conduct.

In essence, confidence is a good trait one should have because it helps build positivity in individuals. However individuals could mistake confidence as a shield for unleashing their own insecurities. confidence isn’t walking into a room and thinking you are better than everyone, it is walking in and not having to compare yourself to anyone.

©️ 2025 Victor E. Ojei.

13 thoughts on “My take on confidence”

  5. Confidence is like wearing a well-fitted suit. If it fits you right, you don’t need to keep adjusting it or pointing it out to others. But if it’s too tight or too loose, you either look uncomfortable or try too hard to prove it belongs to you.

    Some think confidence is about being the loudest in the room, but real confidence is more like a candle—it doesn’t need to shout; it just lights up the space around it.

    The funniest thing is, true confidence isn’t even about proving anything. It’s like walking into a room and not needing to check if your shadow is still following you.

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