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The mythical line between confidence and overconfidence.

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If you look from my perspective, I have been quite a confident guy throughout my life. But when you look from my sister's perspective, then I am way too overconfident to achieve my goals. I have always been confused by these two words as people always say that there is a thin line between confidence and overconfidence. But when you see carefully, there isn't any difference between the former and the latter word. The line between confidence and overconfidence is mythical. As that mythical line depends on our success or failure. Let's first understand what is confidence . It is a feeling of having faith or belief in something. But what does that actually mean? Well, simply put, when you know that you are doing better than guessing, it’s the confidence or faith, as Wikipedia describes it, "a chosen course of action is better or most effective". Now to understand the very notion of confidence and over-confidence, we must understand the nature of success and ...