Confidence cannot be tagged as an inborn quality, it is rather an acquired quality with time. We are developing confidence through our learnings of life. But our situations and people around us are major contributors in shaping us up and in this case yes, they influence us to be confident or not! A child from a happy family is more likely to be confident than a child from an abusive family.
Does family play an important role in developing confidence in a person?
Yes, family or the people you grew up with have a major role to play in building your character, in building you. A confident person is likely to come from a happy/ good family. Someone from an abusive or troublesome family is likely to have lack of confidence when compared to others from a normal family. But we don't get to choose where we are born into, to whom we are born to, we can only change the way we live once we are capable enough to change from our situations. It's not just family, but our surroundings, our school, the people we get to meet everyone contributes to our character, our confidence. People often don't know the impact they create on others. It's often unconscious, or maybe impacts more than intended in a person's life.
How does society contribute to our confidence development?
Society has a set of acceptance criteria inbuilt in them people who don't fall under that criteria gets criticised. It is often a load of crap what others hold high, like how rich we are/ of how great a family we are from, do we pursue jobs that are sophisticated in the society's eyes, who educated we are, how we look - are we tall, fair, well built? Are we appealing in their terms, according to their definitions?
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