Happiness in this World

Some really inspiring thoughts! Confidence is a tricky and slippery thing. There have been many extended periods of time in my life where i've felt either quite happily confident in my endeavors, and other times when a situation arises and my confidence seems to have taken a vacation!

Dividing confidence into three realms like this makes it much easier to visualize where my strengths and weaknesses exist, and helps to explain why certain scenarios are so much easier to tackle than others.

I think it's a more effective tactic to embrace the positive aspects that already exist in one's personality rather than trying to drill out the negative.

Any article that discusses with wisdom self responsibility is another seed of hope. Thank you.

Good points you've shared here about self confidence. Developing confidence for the purpose of self growth is good since it allows us to live beyond our fears. Thanks for sharing this. Good luck.

I was periodically beaten up, but I ran away or didn't fight back because I operated under the assmuption that you should always "turn the other cheek" and never fight back, regardless of the circumstances. The moral directive was to allow yourself to get beaten up.

Fighting was also punished by the schools. If you fought back, you would get suspended for fighting. If you didn't fight back, it was agggrivated assault and the other student was punished, but not you.

I never developed fighting skills because the reason to develop such skills was to defend yourself. Which seemed to be strictly prohibited from a religious standpoint.