A limited belief in unknown facts, especially of the future:
"How confident are you that you can get this done by the end of the week?" -- "I'm pretty confident. If nothing unexpected happens it'll be done Thursday morning, but there might well be some minor thing I've missed".
"How confident are you that you make a good impression on people you meet?" -- "Not at all, I'm continually afraid that the next thing I say will humiliate me, or that they already dislike me".
"How confident are you that you passed the exam?" -- "Not sure. If they liked my second essay then it'll be fine, but that was a 50/50 gamble".
There is false confidence just as there is false belief, so one can be over-confident or under-confident either because of bad information or irrational effects.
Confidence also means self-confidence, which I think is about your confidence that what you're doing is the "right" (morally, tactically, or whatever) thing, and whether you'll be able to handle (emotionally, practically, or whatever) upcoming events.
2) Where does confidence come from?
I follow others here in saying empirical evidence, but that's not good enough to overcome irrational fears, or irrational over-confidence. So I'd say also there's a calmness of mind which allows people to proceed rationally (if not analytically, for those who aren't that kind of thinker), and which is also needed for a true feeling of confidence.
3) Can you think of someone who is completely confident?
To be "completely confident" of something means that you absolutely believe it is correct. The last thing you want at work, for example, is someone who was always completely confident they will meet their deadline. You know they'll be wrong eventually, and in the mean time you can't tell when their deadline is at risk and needs contingency planning.
I know (of) people who never admit that they could possibly make a mistake, and never appear to act with equivocation. I'm not sure whether they're confident, bluffing and/or deluded.
I suppose that it is possible to be completely confident that one's decisions and actions are always the best under the circumstances and given limited knowledge. Someone could believe that they will always do their best, either morally or in terms of whatever other outcomes they try to achieve.
As such, you could always be confident of your actions even where you're uncertain what that outcome will actually be (and hence not confident of your results). And you might be confident that emotionally you can handle anything, even if you concede that in a fistfight with Jet Li, your abilities will fail you.
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A limited belief in unknown facts, especially of the future:
"How confident are you that you can get this done by the end of the week?" -- "I'm pretty confident. If nothing unexpected happens it'll be done Thursday morning, but there might well be some minor thing I've missed".
"How confident are you that you make a good impression on people you meet?" -- "Not at all, I'm continually afraid that the next thing I say will humiliate me, or that they already dislike me".
"How confident are you that you passed the exam?" -- "Not sure. If they liked my second essay then it'll be fine, but that was a 50/50 gamble".
There is false confidence just as there is false belief, so one can be over-confident or under-confident either because of bad information or irrational effects.
Confidence also means self-confidence, which I think is about your confidence that what you're doing is the "right" (morally, tactically, or whatever) thing, and whether you'll be able to handle (emotionally, practically, or whatever) upcoming events.
2) Where does confidence come from?
I follow others here in saying empirical evidence, but that's not good enough to overcome irrational fears, or irrational over-confidence. So I'd say also there's a calmness of mind which allows people to proceed rationally (if not analytically, for those who aren't that kind of thinker), and which is also needed for a true feeling of confidence.
3) Can you think of someone who is completely confident?
To be "completely confident" of something means that you absolutely believe it is correct. The last thing you want at work, for example, is someone who was always completely confident they will meet their deadline. You know they'll be wrong eventually, and in the mean time you can't tell when their deadline is at risk and needs contingency planning.
I know (of) people who never admit that they could possibly make a mistake, and never appear to act with equivocation. I'm not sure whether they're confident, bluffing and/or deluded.
I suppose that it is possible to be completely confident that one's decisions and actions are always the best under the circumstances and given limited knowledge. Someone could believe that they will always do their best, either morally or in terms of whatever other outcomes they try to achieve.
As such, you could always be confident of your actions even where you're uncertain what that outcome will actually be (and hence not confident of your results). And you might be confident that emotionally you can handle anything, even if you concede that in a fistfight with Jet Li, your abilities will fail you.