Definitions by Solid Mantis
Underconfidence
Underconfidence can cost you a game just like overconfidence can. If you have a 4-8 record, you're not usually going into games with too much confidence, the way a team with a 12-0 or a 10-2 record might do. Instead, you are almost to the point where you think losing the next game is the most likely thing to happen, so the little bit of extra confidence you would get from winning more games isn't there. A lot of people think it's ego that cost you a game where you were up in double digits, but if you didn't think you could get up by double digits in the first place, it's not ego or confidence that cost you the game, it was not allowing yourself to continue to believe in yourself when adversity came back. The familiar mindset of failure comes back, the hard part when you're underconfident is not letting it scare you to fail. You want for the game to be a good time for all, but a losing streak isn't a good time.
It was underconfidence that cost them the game. No matter what the coach said, or how much experience he had, they knew it wasn't their egos that cost them the game. A 4-8 record doesnt come with an oversized ego, it comes with a lack of confidence in your ability. Where a little bit of added confidence at times there was a lot of pressure could be the difference at the end of the game. Nobody naturally performs well under pressure. Nobody naturally handles a setback or a loss well. Nobody naturally deals with another person's desperation (to win at any cost) well. It's just as irrational to be underconfident as it is to be any other way, and that's why it's just as human.
Underconfidence by Solid Mantis November 29, 2020
Underconfidence
Underconfidence can cost you a game just like overconfidence can. If you have a 4-8 record, you're not usually going into games with too much confidence, the way a team with a 12-0 or a 10-2 record might do. Instead, you are almost to the point where you think losing the next game is the most likely thing to happen, so the little bit of extra confidence you would get from winning more games isn't there. A lot of people think it's ego that cost you a game where you were up in double digits, but if you didn't think you could get up by double digits in the first place, it's not ego or confidence that cost you the game, it was not allowing yourself to continue to believe in yourself when adversity came back. The familiar mindset of failure comes back, the hard part when you're underconfident is not letting it scare you to fail. You want for the game to be a good time for all, but a losing streak isn't a good time.
It was underconfidence that cost them the game. No matter what the coach said, or how much experience he had, they knew it wasn't their egos that cost them the game. A 4-8 record doesnt come with an oversized ego, it comes with a lack of confidence in your ability. Where a little bit of added confidence at times there was a lot of pressure could be the difference at the end of the game. Nobody naturally performs well under pressure. Nobody naturally handles a setback or a loss well. Nobody naturally deals with another person's desperation (to win at any cost) well.
Underconfidence by Solid Mantis November 29, 2020
Narrative
If you don't like the narrative, you don't have to listen to, or read it. Just like before 2020, there was a statue for everybody, if you didn't like a statue of a Confederate soldier, you could visit a Martin Luther King statue instead.
Narrative by Solid Mantis November 29, 2020
Contemporary
If you make music and someone tells you that your music should sound more contemorary, instead of making them a contemporary sounding album, why not just tell them to make their own contemporary sounding music if it's what they like, since the music you make is your own, it's not meant to sound like somebody else's, even if that makes it less popular, at least you didn't compromise your music because somebody thought that's what you should do with it.
Not everybody has to make music that sounds contemporary, if someone likes contemporary music, they need to buy albums by people that make it or make it themselves, not expect every artist to start making the kind of music they like, that's bullshit. If you're a music artist you would think they wouldn't buy tickets to your show if they didn't like the way your music sounded, especially not if you had been making music for a long time and people were still buying albums and tickets to shows.
Contemporary by Solid Mantis November 29, 2020
Queen bee
The queen bee was socially the epitome of smooth, and thought everyone else's life was not as good as hers, that she was better than everyone else. At what point in life did the mollycoddle next door become the queen bee?
Queen bee by Solid Mantis November 29, 2020
Queen bee
The queen bee was socially the epitome of smooth, and thought everyone else's life was not as good as hers, that she was better than everyone else.
Queen bee by Solid Mantis November 29, 2020
Too rough to be true
Too rough to be true by Solid Mantis November 29, 2020