Difference between Confidence and overconfidence

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Friends,

We generally heard the word that “I am confident to do the thing” or “I am fully prepared to do the job”.

But we find that being confident and prepared, the thing or the job becomes a disaster.

Now there is a fine line between confidence and over-confidence, or well prepared and over prepared.

In childhood times, most of the time, we are confident that whatever legitimate thing we will ask from the parent, we will get it. But many times, we do not receive the things from them and as we are over-confident about it, we get disheartened.

For example, whenever our parents return from outside, they will bring something for us, and we are confident about it. But this gradually becomes overconfidence and when they are not bringing anything we are sad about it.

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In school times, during examination times, when we are well prepared about the subject, we are confident to do well. And when we are not prepared for the subject but still think we will do good with the subject, then it becomes over-confidence.

I have seen many times in sports also this confidence and over-confidence changed the outcome of the match.

In football matches, a Striker is confident that he or she will score the goal after defeating two defenders and the goal-keeper, and he or she does the same but missed the goal due to over-confidence. Similarly, a goalkeeper could not save the goal due to over-confidence in clearing the ball.

In cricket also, a Batsman got out or a fielder missed the catch due to over-confidence.

I have seen many relations has broken due to this over-confidence.

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In professional life also, this over-confidence creates a lot of problems during any project work. You are confident to complete the job in stipulated time and when this confidence becomes over-confidence you are unable to do it in the said time.

In recent times, the burning example of over-confidence you can see in this pandemic called COVID. Still, many of us are confident that COVID will do no harm to us and not abiding by the restrictions as suggested by the experts.

The result we can see of this over-confidence and when we are understanding this it is too late.

So, I believe that confidence is good, but over-confidence will yield wrong results.

Stay safe and healthy.