Excessive self-confidence - good or bad?

Excessive self-confidence is certainly good, under certain conditions it can be a big plus in any business, however, for such luxury it is necessary to pay, and this reckoning is expressed in the departure from reality. 

Of course, it is not easy to find a middle ground between uncertainty and too high self-confidence, nevertheless it is possible to do this, by a balanced analysis of one's own capabilities and the search for an adequate self-assessment. The most important thing when assessing your own abilities and I have noticed this many times, does not relate negatively to failures and misses, and, of course, mistakes must also be perceived by us as a matter of course. It is the fear of overstepping the line, when failure negatively affects self-esteem, forcing people to pump their psyche and pumping it often. If you choose between two evils, then of course it will turn out that all the same be self-confident is more profitable, so people rise to unprecedented heights, but this also helps to dislodge them.

Perhaps you have had this in your life, and maybe not, then imagine a situation where everything happens constantly from time to time, you are doing everything right, you are not mistaken and you are winning all and all. Of course, in order to imagine this, it is necessary to have a rich imagination, nevertheless, it is obvious that a sense of reality in this case can start leaving a person, which is incorrectly perceived information, incorrect data for analysis, and accordingly the beginning of an inadequate response to the situation, which is unacceptable. Being a realist is not easy, I would say that it is necessary first of all to be able to control your emotions, to almost completely get rid of them, so that they do not incline the scales in the direction of low self-esteem, not in the direction of excessive self-esteem, keeping some objective balance. Moreover, to make a preference for yourself and say that it's better to win for the time being than to be a victim of circumstances all the time, is also an expression of an inadequate analysis of the situation with excessive self-confidence.

You can win and be at the height without playing with the psyche, about coolness and equanimity I've written many times, look at what people are sitting at the top of the pyramid, these are realists in the full sense of the word. I often dealt with people for whom any such conversations were perceived as another maxim, that is, a kind of dose of moralizing, aimed at reducing their self-esteem, as an option because of envy. Only here to me as to the psychologist it to what, and without that I can find opportunities to be perceived properly at associates to be engaged in a clearing of others. No friends, all this from the category, when it is very clearly visible from the outside, as a person begins to enter, whose self-confidence goes off scale. I repeat, everyone has their own price, and overestimated self-esteem, when a person is so sure of himself that he takes a burden not by force, there is also a price, and this must be remembered.

Many psychologists, mostly coaches, pump the psyche, for example, sportsmen in such a way that he has an inflated self-esteem, so that he is not afraid of his opponent, he believed in himself, even in those that he does not have. Such athletes can and do achieve great results, but if we recall the rationalism of Muhammad Ali, no doubt the greatest boxer in history, it becomes clear that the sobriety of thinking is not inferior, but far surpasses the overestimated self-esteem. I will not cite all such examples, there are many of them, and any of you can think of something like that, and then the sport is still not an indicator, there are more priority comparisons with similar conclusions. If you are respected readers from among those who perfectly get along with their excessive self-confidence, if your overestimated self-esteem never failed you, that, it is certainly good, nevertheless pay attention to those moments that you can miss or not give to them meaning, in the series of their meaninglessness in their own eyes.

Move slightly towards realism, just look at what is and requires attention, otherwise it can become a secret door to your opportunities, in order to weaken your position. After all, this is how those who sit and overthrow the strong from their throne act, because to pay attention to the goat is not worthy of your attention, and even more so to fear it, something self-indulgent is something inappropriate, but in vain.