Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host Corey Muscarra and in today's episode I'm going to share some thoughts on confidence.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so I think we tend to place a little too much emphasis on confidence or feeling like we need to have

confidence

before we can do something

or just we need to have confidence to get through this world.

But I'm going to offer a different perspective.

One that says, you don't need to be confident.

You just need to meet your life with presence, humility,

curiosity, and an openness to starting again, and again, and again.

This life is a very big thing and no one individual can conquer it, especially the small

self, our thoughts and our ideas in relationship to everything that is happening.

The complexity, confusion, everything that is just inherent to being alive and being in

relationships and being in community and being a sentient being that

knows one day will die. It's all just this massive thing and to stand in a superficial kind of confidence of like yeah I'm gonna conquer this or I'm gonna own

this or I'm totally certain about myself you know there's a time and place for that in certain context, but when it comes

to life in general, I mean, it's just so understandable why we wouldn't feel that way and it could be a subtle form of delusion to think

that we can master this life, conquer this life.

And I know I'm offering a very one dimensional

and superficial idea of confidence. but this experience of meeting, just instead of trying to be

confident, meeting our life with presence, humility, curiosity, leaning in what's this like, and just an openness to starting again,

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