Do you believe these statements?
- Confidence is a choice.
- Confidence can be learned.
- Confidence is a skill you can acquire.
Or, do you believe these statements?
- Some people are born confident.
- Confidence is an innate state of mind.
- You’re either a confident person or you’re not.
As you can probably guess, I believe the first set of statements. So do most performance coaches and sports psychologists. And, interestingly, so does Venus Williams, one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
No matter what your opinion about confidence, you will benefit from reading Venus Williams’s three essential rules for becoming more confident and successful from a recent Opinion piece in the New York Times.
