CONFIDENCE

Recently one of my best friend was asking me what is confidence?

Really a good question.

As a matter of fact, we should know the difference between lack of confidence, confidence and over confidence.

Can we define them?

What is defining? Factuality of something which is concrete...

But I would say confidence is a relative term.
Lack of confidence is common for everyone.
I can't do is lack of confidence.

Let me give an example for confidence and over confidence.

Let us consider Character X and Y.

There are two cages A and B in which we have Tigers.

Each cage has one Tiger.

Let Z be the critieria or trick required to tame or hunt single tiger.

If X doesn't have tactic Z and Y has tactic Y.

Let us leave X and Y in cages A and B respectively.

Before leaving them in the cage. We ask X and Y whether they are confident over the challenge.

If X says, I am confident even without knowing the tactics and for sure he is going to die, it is over confidence.

If Y says, I am confident with knowing the tactics and for sure he is going to survive, it is confidence.

Now we will take another case,
Let there be one Tiger in cage A and 2 Tigers in cage B.
If X doesn't have tactic Z and Y has tactic Y.
Let us leave X and Y in cages A and B respectively.
Before leaving them in the cage. We ask X and Y whether they are confident over the challenge.
If X says, I am confident even without knowing the tactics and for sure he is going to die, it is over confidence.
If Y says, I am confident even with knowing the Tactics to handle 1 Tiger, but since there are 2 tigers, he is over confident.
So from the above examples it is vivid that confidence is not something concrete for everyone.
It is something relative and depends on your capability.
Something which is over confident for someone can be within confident limit for you based on your capability.

So know your capability and then decide whether you are confident or over confident.