Difference between Self Esteem and Self Confidence

* Difference between self esteem and self confidence Self confidence and self confidence are linked but they are not the same thing. Your self esteem is how much you like yourself, how you see yourself. What we see when we look in the mirror. Self esteem is somewhat passive and isn’t something others can observer in you. While, if we look at, self confidence. It is something more active, and describes our abilities and willingness to interact with the world around us. By comparison, we can see how self confidently somebody (or even a group such as a sports team) is acting. Self esteem is the idea about yourself. It is how much you value yourself and how important you think you are. It is the acceptance, respect, trust and belief in you. Self confidence means that you believe in your own abilities. Self confidence is related to self assurance, you are proud of your own abilities. You are positive, take risks and set goals and reachable standards. With self-confidence you have the certainty that you can do it . Self esteem is valuing oneself unconditionally, if you are alive you can have full self- esteem. Go on, you have permission. Self-esteem is valuing yourself as a human being. You are alive, you have the powers of thought, emotion, speech & movement. You can do things! When you think about the amazing freedom of being alive and being able to think, feel, speak and behave as you want, this is awe inspiring. No matter what you do or who you are you can esteem yourself. Self-Confidence is having the confidence that you can do this or that thing. It is about your skills and performance and is conditional. If you are competent at a certain skill, you can be confident that you can do that. Confidence is conditional upon you being good at the said skill. If you are not good at it, there is no use being confident. If you are confident that you can skydive buy you’ve never done it before and know nothing about it, that is recipe for disaster. Your confidence will improve naturally as your competence increases. There is another element that you can be confident in that can help you improve your confidence at any skill.

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