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%CONFIDENCE AND CREATIVITY 850612
To have confidence is to feel free to confide, to
feel free to be vulnerable, to have a legitimate sense of
security. If one does not feel secure one does not feel
free to be open and honest, to confide, to be confident.
To confide is to move towards intimacy and vulnerability.
If one is constantly on the defensive one does not confide
freely, one can not be confident.
Confidence is not based exclusively upon one's own
accomplishments. People who are highly accomplished may
lack confidence because they have not been granted the
gift of security, the freedom to be vulnerable. The
freedom to be vulnerable can not be accomplished by a
person for self; it is a gift given by a community that
has unity, to a unity of the community, a person.
Confidence and freedom to be vulnerable are related to
each other. You can feel free to share confidences only
when you are free to be vulnerable, when you are confident
of your security and so not on the defensive.
This considerations indicate that confidence is not
necessarily based upon a feeling that failure is unlikely.
Confidence is based upon a sense that one will not be
rejected; for reasons of success or of failure.
Confidence is not based upon the anticipation of success
as much as upon the anticipation of acceptance.
Acceptance need not be based upon success, it can be based
upon love which is not fundamentally conditional in its
acceptance. Confidence flows from being loved in a fail-
safe context.
The freedom to be creative, to take risks, to take
initiatives; such freedom flows from confidence understood
in the above sense. Such "ability" should be understood
as occasioned as much by a person's context as by the
person's inherent ability. The ability to be creative
flows from the community's gift of confidence to the
creative person. Confidence understood in the above sense
is a gift from the community to the member of the
community which sets the member free to be creative.
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