From where does this type of confidence come? How and from where do people get it? Experience? Is there a source where I can find more of this energy?
You can't have confidence all the time. Sometimes you can "act as if" and get by but that not everything; unless you're in sales. If you are ever on the hook to do the work or job yourself (engineer a solution or produce a product), you have this sense of urgency and serious about yourself and that is not confidence. In fact I think that having that sense of urgency and seriousness about yourself actually DETRACTS FROM your confidence in some way. Confidence can be thought of as arrogance.
Is it so bad to doubt or be skeptical? Maybe in sales.
I guess I'd rather be scientific and fact-based rather than overly excited about "opportunities" myself.
Being confident all the time isn't possible but we want it for ourselves. When it comes to work, in the end SOMEONE has to be the one who takes the lead and ACTUALLY delivers the product with the skills, resources, and connections they have to the customer. This product has to be delivered to the level of quality that the customer actually requires, to a "confident" place. Delivering quality, to me, is confidence. But to get here requires much, much more.
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