Confidence is a poor substitute for Clarity
When your backs are pushed up against the wall, you need to make some big decisions.
So if you're asking me like how do you build confidence, you first have to ask “what is confidence?”
And I think that confidence is a very poor substitute for clarity. And once you're clear, you feel everything's good. Confidence, people think, "Oh, it’s beating your chest etc."
So the key was to become as clear as possible. That from a these possible paths, this is the best path.
And that comes doing the first principle and second order thinking. And second order thinking is if I make a decision now, what are the consequences? Five seconds from now, five minutes from now, five hours from days from now, you know.
And you consider all these four, five, six paths, you've done the second order thinking, you tend to find the highest probability path.
So when you have clarity, naturally you have a calm and confidence.
And then uphill mountain becomes a flat plane. Now you can run. You know, very, very fast.
