Confidence comes from the pain.
- The pain of trial
- The pain of error
- The pain of persistence
Until eventually, the pain results in a success.
This success shouldn’t mark an end (to pain), but rather a new beginning.
For hiding from pain is the path towards atrophy—the antithesis of success.
Confronting the pain is the path towards hypertrophy—the best friend of success.
And as it is with exercise, working your muscles to hypertrophy once (one success) will have little long-term benefit.
It’s the repeated exposure to the pain (of exercise) that leads to the noteworthy gains in muscular size and ability.
And if you want to increase the “size” and “ability” of your life, you have to treat your confidence “muscles” the same.
…And follow the pain.