This seems like a pretty definitive statement, but a contradictory one. If you are confident, how can you be humble at the same time? Most often we hear these words thrown around when someone achieves something great and they acknowledge all the hard...

This seems like a pretty definitive statement, but a contradictory one. If you are confident, how can you be humble at the same time? Most often we hear these words thrown around when someone achieves something great and they acknowledge all the hard work of their teammates, coworkers and others to make that greatness become possible. That level of humility can be difficult to attain though as you achieve greatness and the praise starts rolling in. Truly confident people know though that it took months and years of failures to put them in the very position that they are in right now.    That vicious cycle is what it means to be confident and humble simultaneously. Recognizing that you can get through anything comes from consistently being humbled. Trying new things and learning from others that have much more experience than you is a difficult habit but a necessary one. Our insecurities often hold us back from being vulnerable and putting ourselves out there, so in many ways we like to put up a facade of confidence that protects us from ever being humbled. In many ways it’s like never even getting in the ring at all, purely watching and judging from the outside looking in.    We all have moments where we feel confident, and it comes from experience. At one point in our lives we couldn’t speak, or walk but now we consider ourselves in many ways experts. Whether we knew it or not it took many moments  of humbling falls and stutters to create the confident individuals that we are today. Don’t forget that you have to be humbled in order to be confident.

Confidence Is Humility