EPTOn November 01 2008 07:21 Chef wrote:
In short... One does not have to feel strongly about something to be confident. They must only have deemed it the best chance, even if that chance is only 20%, they will be confident that that is the best option to take. Confidence in the results is something else entirely though (but from the tone of your OP, I didn't take it that that's what you were referring to, especially since you related confidence to courage, and no one can be courageous about results).
In short... One does not have to feel strongly about something to be confident. They must only have deemed it the best chance, even if that chance is only 20%, they will be confident that that is the best option to take. Confidence in the results is something else entirely though (but from the tone of your OP, I didn't take it that that's what you were referring to, especially since you related confidence to courage, and no one can be courageous about results).
I'd like to comment on this briefly.
If you do a courageous act, you are essentially leaving things to chance (meaning you are considering fate and that whether or not I do this I will fall into what was set before me regardless), That means you have already accepted the fate or chance regardless of the outcome. You are accepting death, harm, truth, survival, success.
If you express confidence you are leading the frame that you are acting on the intensive purpose of succeeding AND that you notice its progress. You are not acting on fate, and you do not worry that of chance, b.c you 'own' it (so to speak). Thus allowing more opportunity to present itself b/c you are not shunned by the potential failure.
