Well, hello there. It's Morgan Harper-Nichols here. I'm an artist and a writer, and this is a space

where I turn the lens on various topics and subjects in hopes to learn something new or see something in a new way.

Today's episode is called The Truth About Confidence. Thank you so much for tuning in today. I'm Morgan Harper Nichols.

There's something beautiful and captivating about a person who has confidence. It's admirable to watch someone carry on with certainty about what they believe is true or what they believe

they are capable of. But when we see these people, it's very easy for them to become somewhat

of an avatar in our minds of what confidence should look like. Confidence is someone who speaks this way,

talks this way, works this way, communicates with others and floats around the room with ease.

Whatever it is when you stop and think about that person in your life who seems to just exude confidence,

what do they look like, what do they sound like, how do they approach challenges in life?

And while there is a lot to learn from these people, one thing that can happen is that that avatar becomes so huge in our

mind that it goes beyond the size of an Instagram square or a big poster on the wall to the

size of seeing the world through this life size lens that creates this alternate reality

where there are people who are confident in themselves and there are people who are not.

And to make it even more difficult, we can at times put ourselves indefinitely in that place

of being the one who lacks confidence or doesn't have as much confidence as we should.

But one thing that could help with this way of thinking is actually looking up the word confidence in its

actual definition. Oxford Languages defines confidence as the feeling or belief that one can rely on

someone or something, firm trust. Merriam Webster defines confidence as a feeling or consciousness of one's powers

or of reliance on one's circumstances. And this one from the McMillan Dictionary is my favorite.

The belief that you are able to do things well. The belief that you are able to do things well. And what I love about this

definition is that it's not about doing everything well, doing all things well, but do things

well. And what are those things? And that's the good part. There are many things that we could be good at, that we can be

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