I was thinking about confidence in athletes. I tend to talk about not having enough of it.
Not having enough of it takes away from a person's aggressiveness. You become too much of a passer.
Having too much of it makes you look really stupid. You become too much about yourself and don't use your teammates properly to get a win. You also can become to much of a show-off. You take shots from places you have no business taking them from, and you try moves that you can barely do in practice at key points in games. Too much confidence can also lead to complacency, which is not good at all.
My favorite thing about Coach Auriemma is that he doesn't ever allow his team to be complacent. I believe that I read that after he won his first championship, as he was celebrating with his team after the game back at the hotel, the team started to watch the game over, and at a certain point, Geno stopped the tape and was about to rewind it to instruct the team on something...right after they won the National Championship.
It's not good to lack confidence or have too much of it and finding the middle ground can be tough.
But, if I had to choose between a person who has no confidence and one that has too much of it, I'd always go for the one that has too much of it. If you never take the shot it's impossible to win.
To tie this in, Jimmy Johnson cut one of his Cowboys kickers after he came over to the sideline and said "Well coach, I've lost my confidence."
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