" For it is God who works in you to will and act according to His purpose." Phillipians 2:13
There are two versions of confidence. Personal and Performance.
Performance confidence has a heavy hand on the level of your skill set and mastered abilities.
The self assured personal digs and runs much deeper...
But these two can easily clash when you place all of your confidence purely in the external results and reactions basket. Your well being is perpetually at the mercy of your outcomes. And if you are a struggling writer, artist, actor, or exhibitionist of any kind living in New York City, doors slamming in your talents face are eventually going to put you in a negative and vulnerable position. (ie head in sand, ass in air).
If you stay there long , you will undoubtedly get screwed.
I listened to the novelist who was struggling with his debut title. I watched the defeated dynamic of a published poet grow angry at her neutral opponent's view of her work. I discussed the crucial importance we place on reader's feedback and the part it plays in our content. We commiserated together on the inner struggle of writing ego versus interesting.
There has to be something more narcissistic in a performer than just having a story to tell but too much mojo in the flow and you lose your audience....
In this cat and mouse game of certainty, there is something certain.
It is one thing to know you have a talent. It is another for others to tell you.
Here's to knocking on more doors tomorrow.
“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.” Benjamin Franklin
How far can you go when you know no bounds?
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