Disadvantage of excessive positivism

Self-esteem, self-confidence, and the fact of believing in ourselves represent an extremely important factor to stay motivated during the realization of the different activities that are developed throughout life, in fact, being positive in terms of the hope of results is a highly recommended quality to obtain success in different situations. In a certain way, being positive helps us to maintain a state of calm, and of good expectations towards a certain result, however, this fact does not represent any factor that can influence those results, but it does represent a great source of motivation for the continuous effort that tends to become at some moment into triumphs.

Although the levels of positivism in the population is a quality that is difficult to measure, I can infer from my own experience that all of us have ever gone through a moment in our lives in which we have experienced that quality in excess. The ego, excess self-confidence, and positivism become a disadvantage just at the time when we begin to expect the results of situations to be to our benefit just because of who we are, and not because we keep doing it. From this point we can find all kinds of people who boast of what they once did, had, or achieved, and hope to repeat those situations without contributing their greatest effort. A person's accomplishments and track record allow him to build his reputation and capabilities, but these must continue to be executed in order to be validly acceptable and to be able to expect good results as a consequence of them in different situations. Therefore, punctual and occasional achievements do not tend to provide as many benefits as those in which one works continuously to maintain and even improve them.

Too much positivism can affect all of us in any situation, and although there is no concrete way to know when we are overconfident, the best thing to do is to always try to keep an inquisitive mind during important situations.