Tagged: confidence

Tightrope

Life is a tightrope. Everyone’s walking on it but no one’s sure whether their next step will see them still on the rope or not.

Common sense says you SHOULD be unsure, there is very little holding you from falling off. But there is something you CAN be sure of, and that’s yourself. You can be confident in how you’re balancing yourself and of taking control of that small area you have a say in. Forget the rest. Ground yourself in that bit of security and let that be the source of your confidence.

Those that can radiate this confidence become the winners, they understand that it doesn’t pay to worry about all the other variables they can’t control.

Technique

“Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.” – William Faulkner, 1956