By Zoffy（左冰宇）
When I was young, I really cannot understand why people say that self-confidence is so important. I thought I could be very successful without be confident as well.
I believed many of you may hold the same idea as I held before. But later, I notice that is not true.
To explain why I want to first claim about what is self-confidence. If you are confident, you may be very energetic when talking with others, may walk in a style and so on. However, that is what how you behave if you are confident, not self-confidence itself. Which means you dont need to be like that to be confident. You can be shy but at the same time confident. To explain further, the core of confident is that you believe you are capable of the thing you encounter!
Why it is so important? Because without it you will achieve nothing, you won’t even start anything. When I was young, people introduced me basketball, football, drawing,music, I will just say no I just don’t like it. But after I grew a little bit, I realized that in fact I lie to myself. It is not true I don’t like music, I enjoy music a lot, anime music, rock, modern even classic, I also like the feeling of the tune dancing around my finger, like to be praised, be the focus of a performance.
Yes, although I like all about music but I unconsciously reject to do it by telling myself I do not like it! That is a just an excuse! Nobody do not want to do well in a thing, feel self-realizing or be recognized by others, but a lot of us will chose “I do not like it” just because you are unconsciously not confident enough, we think we can not do it.
Like this, I gave up studying music and painting, miss the chance studying abroad during my high school, never taking part in real research in my bachelor degree, and even maybe miss some people in my life.
My friends, that is why confident is important. No matter how do you looks like, your haircut, how do you speak or walk, is about could you be brave enough to start a thing and not giving up the half-way.
Actually, I am not good at giving a speech before, I am shy, I am poor at English, I do not know how to control the pace of speech, even where should my hand be, how to stand. But after so many failure before, I told myself, you are confident, you should and must be confident now, believed that through hard-working, you can get better and better, and you can endure it till the end.
So from my story about speech I want to tell you Self-confident is not something randomly appear in your soul, it is build from little things. If you feel cannot concentrate during lesson, try to focus 3 minute first, and then 4 minute, 5. After again and again you beat over the fear in your heart, you know there a strong soul in your body, you know there is nothing can prevent you to become better yourself!
Guys, talented people exist indeed, but success does not require talent especially here. To be the best of the best, elite of the elite, you must be genius, but just get a good grades, be responsible for yourself and people closed to you, be a better yourself, to explore a way you like of your life, you just need to be confident.
Tell yourself, you can do it, you can devote into every lessons, you can finish all the homework patiently and make sure you master all the knowledge after carefully study and repeated revision. Tell yourself you are tough enough to undo the mental and physical pain. Tell yourself, you decide to become that one you want to be, and for this time, your resolve is firm, is firm as never before.
