You’ll Never Be Confident

A'alia Zealous
6 min readMar 13, 2022

Because you’re an untrustworthy person

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Confidence.

One of the most sought after and coveted traits in today's society.

It’s basically the end all be all solution to every self improvement, better your life and conquering the world article out there.

When people look up and try to find out ways to be more comfortable and confident with themselves, you get generic responses like “fake it until you make it” or “just pull your shoulders back and walk in a room like you own the place.”

And I hate EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF THESE. RESPONSES.

They sound nice and dandy, but this advice is actually very unhelpful.

You want to know why?

These aren’t concrete steps that actually teach you how to be confident. It actually has nothing to do with confidence whatsoever.

Confidence isn’t something you can just put on or pretend to be because confidence is an action. It’s the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something.

It’s firm trust.

CONFIDENCE IS TRUST IN YOURSELF.

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A'alia Zealous

I'm a young woman with a lot of shit to say, and sometimes, I don't know how to say it. I have a deep desire to understand myself and the world around me.