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This-essay is a8506121.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %CONFIDENCE AND CREATIVITY 850612 To have confidence is to feel free to confide, to feel free to be vulnerable, to have a legitimate sense of security. If one does not feel secure one does not feel free to be open and honest, to confide, to be confident. To confide is to move towards intimacy and vulnerability. If one is constantly on the defensive one does not confide freely, one can not be confident. Confidence is not based exclusively upon one's own accomplishments. People who are highly accomplished may lack confidence because they have not been granted the gift of security, the freedom to be vulnerable. The freedom to be vulnerable can not be accomplished by a person for self; it is a gift given by a community that has unity, to a unity of the community, a person. Confidence and freedom to be vulnerable are related to each other. You can feel free to share confidences only when you are free to be vulnerable, when you are confident of your security and so not on the defensive. This considerations indicate that confidence is not necessarily based upon a feeling that failure is unlikely. Confidence is based upon a sense that one will not be rejected; for reasons of success or of failure. Confidence is not based upon the anticipation of success as much as upon the anticipation of acceptance. Acceptance need not be based upon success, it can be based upon love which is not fundamentally conditional in its acceptance. Confidence flows from being loved in a fail- safe context. The freedom to be creative, to take risks, to take initiatives; such freedom flows from confidence understood in the above sense. Such "ability" should be understood as occasioned as much by a person's context as by the person's inherent ability. The ability to be creative flows from the community's gift of confidence to the creative person. Confidence understood in the above sense is a gift from the community to the member of the community which sets the member free to be creative. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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