Confidence and Bravery

Most people correlate confidence with bravery. Though these two words have similar meanings, if you look closely, they are different from each other.

When you say that you are confident, you say that you believe in yourself. It means that you are sure that you can accomplish tasks. You do not doubt your skills and capabilities. You do not have those short moments of hesitation.

On the other hand, when you are brave, you are a risk-taker. You are the kind of person who is not afraid to face your fears. You are eager to try new things and to explore the world.

Confidence is believing in yourself, and bravery is being fearless. These two words may sound the same when you put it in the same situation. But this is where we divulge into that line between them.

You are confident that you can do a perfect dive on your first time, but you are not brave enough to jump into the pool to try it. The first sentence shows that you are confident that you are capable of doing a perfect dive, but you are not brave enough to take the risk.

You are willing to jump into the pool to try doing a perfect dive, but you are not confident that you can do it on your first time. In this sentence, it shows your bravery and your self-doubt.

Some people are confident in their selves, but they are not fearless. Some are brave but have self-doubt. If you try to understand yourself and others more, you will be able to see which one they are. And in rare cases, you might even discover that some people possess both traits. It all depends on how they look at and deal with certain situations in their life.

Remember that being confident does not already mean that you are brave and vice versa. But not just because you are only one of the two things, it does not mean that you will stay like that. There is always room for self-improvement. That is true in life.