Hello, everyone, especially the writers among us :
I'm currently struggling about something I neither understand nor have any clue about it.
It's called "self-confidence".
I have a *very* low self-confidence, not much ahead. I sometimes doubt whether I am good with *any*thing, and sometimes I feel powerless and weak.
For example reading a good book at one point or another invokes in me the though : "why, I doubt I can ever be so good ... why can't I write good stories, especially when I'm so much criticized ?" I wonder how the peole like Terry Pratchett (having read the great Wee Free Men lately) or Timonthy Zahn are able to develop such great books with plots with twists and turns, but I'm not even able to deliver a small, tiny story without being heavily criticized ?
I usually see my weaknesses much, much bigger than my strengths, like an elephant compared to a mouse.
Sometimes I wonder if I will ever be any good - in any field of work.
That's what's this (my) thread is about :
"How do I build up a normal, healthy self-confidence ?"
I wonder whether it is possible to build up, to develop any - what would you say about that ?
This question is directed in port towards the participants of the Adorant thread and the Writing Thread, because they know what I'm talking about, but anyone can participate anyway.
Alrik.
