Confidence is the muscle surrounding the skeleton of knowledge that enables you to perform all the tasks you are challenged to do. From physical feats to mental achievement, confidence is the one ingredient that bridges understanding and action. It is the difference between knowing how to act and successfully taking action, between theoretical and practical, spectator and leader, failure and success. You can do anything if you know how to do it and have the confidence to act upon it.
Confidence is an essential ingredient that feeds every action you take and is what experience builds in you with repeated practice. From walking to talking, thinking and experimenting, working and interacting. It is how you transformed from a student to a safe and reliable driver, how you gained the ability to handle yourself in traffic and how you become effective in navigating your way around town and to farther destinations. Confidence is what turned you from a college graduate to a successful professional, from a dreamer to a practitioner. Everything that you do by came from learning and understanding how to perform a task, then practicing it. Experience instills confidence. Gaining confidence is what eventually enabled you to do it well.
Confidence and experience can only be reached through good guidance and continued practice. That cycle deepens the learning and understanding of the task and improves the practice foundation and performance. As you meet different challenges and goals in your life, new cycles of learning and practice are created. You continue to learn and improve while teaching and supporting others in their path. We are all connected in this network of learning and teaching. The more confidence you have, the better leader and teacher you become. It is not how confident you are in a particular field; it is how you apply your confidence to the benefit and betterment of others.