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The Nerve!
Signed, A Dear Vensky: "Open up that mind, son, and snap into things," says author Louis Le Claire Jones in his Birthday Chats with Tomorrow's Man, published in 1940. You better listen to him. Any words I tell you to say won't help without a little bit of confidence. Work on that, and then get back to me. 1940: Nerve vs. Confidence
There is a difference between 'nerve' and 'confidence.' Nerve
is something you use to force a situation ~ while confidence comes
by honestly and fairly acquiring, through experiment and experience,
the courage to accomplish what you set out to do. When a fellow
acts on his nerve it is with the feeling that he is attempting
something beyond him, but hopes he will succeed. When you do a
similar thing in confidence, you approach the problem with
a calm, serene feeling of assurance which denies any thought of
failure. Son, if you don't meet that girl, maybe you lack a little
of both, and because of a certain 'complex' which has you 'buffaloed!' Source:
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You
may have a girl friend who you admire from a distance. It's 'from
a distance' because you haven't the courage to treat her as a
friend, much as you would like to. To tell the truth she may be
quite anxious to know you better, but your timidity is mistaken
for coolness, and perhaps the chance for a fine friendship is
lost because of it. It may surprise you to discover how cordially
you would be received if you would turn down that inferiority
idea for a while, and ignore its existence by denying it to yourself.
