Summary Of Boost Your Confidence

“The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.”
- Walter Russell Bowie

Some highlights of this book are:

• Self-confidence is defined as a belief in oneself and one’s abilities in a wide range of conditions.
• A particular quantity of self-confidence, in addition to the proper knowledge and abilities, allows people to be very effective and efficient. Without the knowledge or abilities, self-confidence alone is not sufficient. However, excessive self-confidence can make people proud or careless and their functioning suffers as a consequence.
• Two ways in which we can increase our self-confidence in particular circumstances are: improve our abilities in dealing with the situations, and improve our self-worth or self-esteem.
• Frequent use of positive thoughts and messages can help to increase self-confidence, and may help us on becoming more effective.

Conclusion
“The root of the matter, if we want a stable world, is a simple and old-fashioned thing, a thing that I am almost ashamed to mention, for fear of the derisive smiles with which wise cynics will greet my words. The thing I mean is love, Christian love.”
- Bertrand Russell

What started out as a book about the different ways we see ourselves now becomes a book about love, since it is from loving and being loved that self-confidence best comes out, and eventually it is divine love that places this all in viewpoint.

Until this concluding section I didn’t use the words “self-love,” because I am not at ease with the ring of that phrase. They sound very much like a proud or arrogant person we describe as being “extremely in love with himself.” If we are to love ourselves, obviously it is not to be in conceit against which clever writers have inveighed many times. Instead, it is to be the type of relationship we have with our most treasured friends: we accept them, mistakes and all, and we are dedicated to their best welfare. We have made a promise to them, and out of that promise we look after them and support them. It must be very similar in our connection to ourselves.

<< Previous    [1]  2    Next >>