To achieve anything we must believe in ourselves

in #philosophy7 years ago

You would be hard pressed to find someone successful who does not believe in himself. It's imperative that we all draw from this belief to overcome all the setbacks, because if there is one thing that is certain, is that they will happen.


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Learn to celebrate your wins, it's so easy to surrender to the idea of the losses, the things that don't get done, the things that don't work out, that we forget all we have achieved. Every step forward is a step in the right direction, and no one who wants to be successful should play the short game.

The best selling author Jon Gordon said once, "Talk to yourself more than you listen to yourself." It sounds silly at first glance, but the idea is quite powerful. Instead of thinking of ourselves as victims, we need to be our own life coaches, our own motivators and remind ourselves that no matter how hard thing get, we can do it... we can overcome, because we do believe in ourselves.

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@chbartist

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Yes, because if you will not who else will believe.

Just keep your feet on the ground and not to hurt someone, you are on right track.

It is fulfilling to be successful when you able to surpass hardships in life without stepping on someone.

to be successful we must take the shot, because chances are higher than not taking a shot- unknown

That's very true. You have to believe in yourself otherwise you won't be able to achieve anything because you have to convience others to join you in your dream and if you are not believing in that then they will not join you.
Then comes living happy in that and persistence which is very important. Every successful entrepreneur has these qualities.

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This is what many educators call a 'teachable moment'. Time for an actual philosophy lesson!

What we have here is an illustration of mixing up the necessary and sufficient conditions for something to happen.

Believing that you can do something might (at best) be a necessary precondition of success - it's hard to be really successful without at least a little self-belief.

But it isn't sufficient for success - it takes much more than self-belief to achieve anything.

For example, I believe that I'm a passable philosopher and that I can write a pretty good article. This belief is a necessary precondition to my articles ending up on the trending page (because if I didn't think this, I wouldn't write or publish). However, this belief is not sufficient by itself to get my articles to the top of trending - it's not even enough to get them to the top of #philosophy.

A further illustration: It's a necessary condition of getting to the top #philosophy that I publish a post using that tag. The sufficient condition of topping this tag is that (at the time of writing this reply) I get over $430.64 worth of upvotes. Given that I haven't been here very long, and I don't attract many big-SP votes, this would mean spending more on bidbots than both you and @pinacle.

So, as you can see, there is more to being successful, or even surviving, than solely self-belief. It's important, but it isn't everything. This is really important for people to understand.

When you succeed, it's not just because you believed in yourself - it's due to your talent and hard work. It is also due to factors like your genetic predisposition, the geographic and socioeconomic situation you were born into, and random dumb luck.

Likewise, when you fail, it necessarily just because you didn't believe in yourself enough. Maybe you didn't make the right choices or work hard enough. Or maybe you don't have the right genes, were't born in the right country, don't have parents who were rich enough, and so on.

Sometimes your success or failure is down to you and your self-belief. Sometimes it's just the way the universe is, and no amount of motivational bullshit will change that.

It's nice to find such a good comment on such a terrible post.

Thank you for having dedicated your time to writing this brilliant text. I really appreciate it. Believe me!

hmmmmm. a lot you said makes a lot of sense.

when you believe in yourself then that could also make the society believe in you too..very true...

If you see yourself as an opportunity. People will also see you like that as well. People in Highschool are a perfect example of that.

be your own life coach.... I like that

to believe in yourself, you have to be believable. Too many today are liars, posers, actors, hypocrites and frauds... AND THEY EACH KNOW IT.

you are absolutely right, ive made it a point in life to remove those kinds of people from my world..

very true. You can't believe you lying to others.

Listen to motivation videos and audio really helps..

Yeah but one of the problem of the society is what makes people believable is money in general.

believable to whom, exooo? If you are a slave of money, then you fall to your knees like any other slave to anything else. What makes people "believable" is their character... tested over time with a few solid folks who will vouch for that character if called upon.

And btw. "society" is SERIOUSLY overrated.

Belivable for mister the average woman or man. For us... We are sadly all slave os the money... A character, we are all our own character mate... At the end of the story if you can not feed your children, your wife or even yourself you'll die...

esa frase que citas me gusta, es cierto quizás si nos escuchamos podríamos terminar por no tomar decisiones importantes por tener miedo, en mejor hablarnos, incentivarnos, darnos animo para que la motivación por cada tarea que emprendamos en nuestra vida tenga exito

Si, Gracias

Believe in yourself & You will be Unstoppable.:)12496345_941103145996775_1769863017240005945_o.jpg I upvote and followed you:)

No.
Believe in yourself, and if you make the right choices and are lucky enough, then you'll be unstoppable.

Thank you @supernova55, All the best !!!

Thank you :) Wish you the best of luck and success :) *****54292_4357872578639_420518452_o.jpg