Friday Review: Confidence

Friday Review: CONFIDENCE

How much confidence do you have in yourself and those around you? Here are a few related posts you may have missed.

“Inhale confidence, exhale doubt.”

 

 

 

 

“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”

 

 

 

“A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.”

 

 

 

 

Those who are wise won’t be busy and those who would

“Those who are wise won’t be busy and those who would be too busy can’t be wise. The wisest man is therefore he who loafs most gracefully.”

Lin Yutang, 20th Century Chinese philosopher

Image from Unsplash by Alex Shute

I asked the AI app Perplexity to give me a list of 10-15 people alive or dead who are considered wise.

Here is the list it compiled:

  • Mahatma Gandh
  • The Dalai Lama
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Mother Teresa
  • Socrates
  • Confucius
  • Maya Angelou
  • Albert Einstein
  • Carl Sagan
  • Jane Goodall
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Oprah Winfrey

EXERCISE:

Who would you add to this list that has made a significant contribution to human wisdom and understanding?

How might the idea of loafing gracefully to reflect and explore the nature and meaning of being human be integral to this process?