#6 What Does Make Your Confidence?
Lack of Confidence
Sometimes, as walking in the street, I feel all people have confidence apart from me. I keep my head down and not to be caught myself. Even if someone speak to me friendly, I will try to leave them quickly.
As everyone know for certain, this behaviour and mental instability deteriorate the quality of my life. It completely differs from leaving ourselves intentionally to be isolated and engage in self-talk.
This feeling derives from luck of confidence. I think this many times " If I had a good look or positive character, or spoke English fluently, I would have steady confidence."
The phase of depression doesn't continue forever, however, there is a rhythm. The key to escape from depression is the confidence. That's why to have confidence helps you to live better.
How to Gain Confidence?
It is challenging to gain confidence no matter what situation we are in. It is impossible to gain it quickly but we can build it during daily training like meditation or self-talk.
Let's think about the way to gain confidence. What does lead to gain confidence?
It is finding evidences of confidence internally. We can find them through meditation and self-talk. Someone sometimes apraise you and give you chance to build confidence, but confidence created by outside reputations is easy to collapse. That's why it is important to build it by myself.
Maintaining our feelings and motivation every day is really challenging. Talking positively to ourselves allows us to relax and even become happy, which leads to gain confidence. Try to ask yourself what my strength is and what people who like me would say about me if they were asked.
Another way is to be obsessed with something. Doing one thing lets you forget bad things and makes you feel accomplished.
I haven't found right ways to gain confidence yet, but it is my key issue to improve my life.
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What Builds Your Confidence?
自信は作り上げるもの。→build confidenceが正しい。
1. What builds your confidence? と
2. What does build your confidence?
の違いは、1 は日常的な質問。2 は強調したい時の質問。
A Lack of Confidence
Sometimes, while walking down the street, I feel like everyone has confidence except me.
~のように感じる feel like
except for 「特定のものを排除するニュアンス」
apart from「排除、追加、他にも」
「〜を除いて」という意味合いでは どっちでも良いのかも。
「〜以外に、~に加えて」という意味合いでは apart from~ が適切。
Apart from English, she speaks French and Spanish. 英語に加えて〜。
Do you have anything I can wash hair with apart from this conditioner? このコンディショナー以外に髪を洗えるものはありませんか？
I keep my head down, trying not to be noticed.
be caught でも可。見つからないようにする、というニュアンスになる。
Even if someone speaks to me kindly, I try to leave quickly. As everyone knows, this behaviour and mental instability deteriorate the quality of my life.
It's completely different from intentionally isolating ourselves and engaging in self-reflection.
This feeling comes from a lack of confidence.
原因を表す。 come from~ 超大事！
The phase of depression doesn't last forever; however, it follows a rhythm.
続く last
リズムに沿って起こる→ follow a rhythm
That's why having confidence helps you live better.
help (A） 動詞の原型
(Aが)〜するのを助ける
(A)がなくても使える！
How to gain confidence?
It is difficult to remain confident in any situation.
confident の状態で い続ける(remain)
remain confident
confident 自信に満ちた、自信のある
It's impossible to develop it overnight, but we can build it through daily practice like meditation or positive self-talk.
quickly 瞬間的な速さ
一朝一夕では身につかない→overnight
develop confident 自信を養う
Let's consider how to gain confidence. What leads to confidence?
「考える」のバリエーションを増やす！
主語を聞く際は、What 動詞 で良い！
What leads to confidence?
What builds our confidence?
It comes from finding evidence of it within ourselves.
何が自信につながるのか？
自信は自分自身の中から自信の根拠を見つけ出すことから生まれる。
come from
within ~以内、〜の中に、〜の内に
evidence は non-countable
Sometimes, others might praise you and give you a chance to build confidence, but confidence built on external validation can easily crumble.
praise 賞賛する、褒める
praise him for his achievement
appraise 値踏みする、見積もる、評価する、鑑定する
The property is appraised for taxation. 財産は課税のため査定される。
He appraised the situation and took swift action. 彼は状況を把握して素早く行動した。
confidence built on external validation can easily crumble.
外部からの評価によって築かれた自信は簡単に崩れ去る。
external 外部の
validation 確認、検査、評価
crumble(v) ボロボロに崩れる、もろく消える
Maintaining our emotions and motivation every day is very challenging.
feeling 感じ方
emotion 心情
Another way to build confidence is to be passionate about something.
be obsessed with~ ~にハマっている、〜のことで頭がいっぱい
→ネガティブな意味も含んでいる(没頭しすぎて他のことが見えていない)
この文脈では、
be passionate about ~ 〜に情熱を燃やす
の方がポジティブで合っている
I haven't found the perfect way to gain confidence yet, but it's a key issue for improving my life.
正しい方法、よりも(自分に合った)完璧な方法 といった方が良い
