build your self-confidence
For the days when trusting yourself feels inadequate.
P.S: Most of you loved this previous entry on ‘the antidote to despair.’
“I tell you, you only have to learn to live like the healthy person does . . . living with complete confidence. What confidence? The only one worth holding, in what is trustworthy, unhindered, and can’t be taken away—your own reasoned choice.” - Epictetus
There are days when trusting yourself feels inadequate. Days when the situation in front of you looms gloomier than the light of every principle you’ve chosen to live by. You’ve done the work, reflected, reasoned, committed to a philosophy that values judgment over hysteria- and still, doubt slips in. You wonder whether relying on yourself is arrogance disguised as courage. You wonder whether choosing reason over reflexive impulses is a luxury you can’t afford when circumstances demand urgency. You feel like you’ve bitten more than you can chew. And that tension, the apprehension, is like the m…
