Anthony,
> There's nothing implicit about it, just
because
> you're "tough" doesn't
> mean you have self confidence too. Self
confidence
> comes from
> experience. Being tough doesn't require
experience.
To be REALLY tough (as opposed to posturing like Wilbur in
FALCON) requires a measure of self-confidence. This is, as
others have pointed out, often at odds with an equal measure
of self-doubt, but it's there. You can't be REALLY tough
without having confidence in your abilities to handle the
situations requiring you to be tough.
Self-confidence doesn't necessarily require experience,
either. Anyone who's ever seen a little kid climb a tree for
the first time without a thought of the danger, jump into a
lake without ever having had a swimming lesson, etc., knows
that self-confidence is part of that kid's very nature.
Neither is experience an unfailing road to self-confidence.
There are those who are so naturally timid and diffident that
no amount of practice or rehearsal or experience ever allows
them to overcome their nature.
But anyone, whether by lack of experience or by nature, who
lacks confidence in his or her own ability, isn't really
tough.
JIM DOHERTY
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