But more importantly, she says

But more importantly, she says: "Self-confidence without competence is of as little use as is competence without self-confidence."

— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

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I have come to believe it is among the greatest gifts a parent can give a child, because without it a person flies a whole life braced for a crash. But be careful what kind you build: self-confidence is worth nothing without the competence underneath it, so the goal is not to inflate the reading but to earn it. There is a name the psychologists give to the deeper belief beneath all this — your locus of control, the sense that the controls are genuinely in your hands and that you can meet what comes. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

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