Confidence goes up and down

I was talking to a boxing coach last night and he said something about confidence that was so matter of fact that it struck me. He said that no matter how tough or talented a fighter is, his confidence will go up and down, and you have to watch and help with that.

Personally, when im not feeling confident, it feels like I'm doing something wrong, and its easy to can down on myself. Everywhere I look there are people who seem to know exactly what they're doing – especially on social media!

I just have to remind myself that confidence in every situation isn't actually normal... in fact it's delusional. If you're doing something new, you shouldn't be confident, you should be humble and quiet. It follows that if you're always confident, and not delusional, then you're probably not doing anything new.

So any lack of confidence simply means you just need to put in more work until you're good enough to have earned the feeling.