i struggle with maintaining eye contact.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Confidence has a common meaning of a certainty about handling something, such as work, family, social events, or relationships. Some have ascribed confidence as a state of being certain either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective. Self-confidence is having confidence in one's self. Arrogance or hubris in this comparison is having unmerited confidence\u2014believing something or someone is capable or correct when they are not. Overconfidence or presumptuousness is excessive belief in someone (or something) succeeding, without any regard for failure. Confidence can be a self-fulfilling prophecy as those without it may fail or not try because they lack it and those with it may succeed because they have it rather than because of an innate ability. Taken to an extreme, over-confidence can cause problems as evidenced by the famous author Matthew Syed and mentioned here in this reference in regard to sport. Motivation theories have suggested that successful performance hinges on both skill and will. Yet, even a motivated and skilled individual can fail to perform if he or she does not have a personal certainty belief that s/he can handle what it takes or what needs to be done.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I struggle with my confidence, it's hard for me to maintain eye contact with others."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I completely understand. A lot of people struggle with having confidence in one's self."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah self-confidence may be hard to build up. I think it depends on how a person was raised."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes it is difficult to build up and I'm sure history is a factor. It has a common meaning about handling events such as work, family, social events and relationships."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, it can make one struggle in every aspect of life and causing emotional stress."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I agree! Confidence can be a self fulfilling thing as those who lack confidence may fail or not try because they do not believe they may succeed. And it can also work in reverse."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Exactly and it can block a person from doing their best because they don't even believe they can."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "So true! There are theories regarding motivation that suggest that a success performance involves both skill and will. We have to find to find a way to believe in ourselves."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think so too, some people don't have skills as high as others yet they can achieve more because of their self-motivation."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes! Work motivation combines energetic forces that originate inside an individual and initiates work related behavior to determine it's intensity. This is called the study of I-O psychology."}]