Definitions by Solid Mantis
Underconfidence
It's not a realistic expectation to expect a first year team to go out and win every game. Underconfidence is when if you think you'll win about 3 games, you end up winning about 3 games, even though you had the ability to do what you didn't think you would do. The point is not to win games, it's not to start a habit of defeating yourself early when really you have the ability to go further with a little more confidence at the times you would usually lose confidence. If you're playing to win, you're going to fear failure and feel like you have to win, but if you're just going out and working on the things you're rusty at, trying to do what you didn't do last week or yesterday, not giving up on yourself, and the work you're doing is always in progress and never finished, you have room to improve anything you want to improve.
Underconfidence can get you stuck somewhere you wouldn't be stuck at a time when your confidence level wasn't as low. Allowing yourself a little room not to fail but not being afraid to fail can sometimes make a difference in how something you do turns out. You won't expect to always fail every time that way, even if you don't expect to do a good job at something. The point isn't to be a stupid fuckin hero on a piece of cardboard, no matter what an announcer thinks you have to be, it's to not feel like you have to be anything but who you are, no more no less.
Underconfidence by Solid Mantis November 30, 2020
Underconfidence
It's not a realistic expectation to expect a first year team to go out and win every game. Underconfidence is when if you think you'll win about 3 games, you end up winning about 3 games, even though you had the ability to do what you didn't think you would do. The point is not to win games, it's not to start a habit of defeating yourself early when really you have the ability to go further with a little more confidence at the times you would usually lose confidence. If you're playing to win, you're going to fear failure and feel like you have to win, but if you're just going out and working on the things you're rusty at, trying to do what you didn't do last week or yesterday, not giving up on yourself, and the work you're doing is always in progress and never finished, you have room to improve anything you want to improve.
Underconfidence can get you stuck somewhere you wouldn't be stuck at a time when your confidence level wasn't as low. Allowing yourself a little room not to fail but not being afraid to fail can sometimes make a difference in how something you do turns out. You won't expect to always fail every time that way, even if you don't expect to do a good job at something.
Underconfidence by Solid Mantis November 30, 2020
Underconfidence
It's not a realistic expectation to expect a first year team to go out and win every game. Underconfidence is when if you think you'll win about 3 games, you end up winning about 3 games, even though you had the ability to do what you didn't think you would do. The point is not to win games, it's not to start a habit of defeating yourself early when really you have the ability to go further with a little more confidence at the times you would usually lose confidence. If you're playing to win, you're going to fear failure and feel like you have to win, but if you're just going out and working on the things you're rusty at, trying to do what you didn't do last week or yesterday, not giving up on yourself, and the work you're doing is always in progress and never finished, you have room to improve anything you want to improve.
Underconfidence can get you stuck somewhere you wouldn't be stuck at a time when your confidence level wasn't as low.
Underconfidence by Solid Mantis November 30, 2020
Grown man/woman poser
The grown man/woman poser was gonna keep acting tough until he/she figured a few things out about himself/herself.
Grown man/woman poser by Solid Mantis November 30, 2020
Grown man/woman poser
The boy/girl was a grown man/woman poser, posing as more adult and grown up than everybody else in their environment.
Grown man/woman poser by Solid Mantis November 30, 2020
Football game
Homicide detective- Why did you do it?
Suspect- Did you watch the football game? These fans from the other team were talking shit and...
Homicide detective- I would have done the same thing. You're all right with me man, you can go home now.
Suspect- Did you watch the football game? These fans from the other team were talking shit and...
Homicide detective- I would have done the same thing. You're all right with me man, you can go home now.
Football game by Solid Mantis November 29, 2020
Underconfidence
Thinking that you're not likely to take the lead if you get behind, or that you're not likely to stay in the lead if an opposing team gets close enough to take one is underconfidence, not overconfidence. The work is never done, it's always work in progress. There's always going to be something that needs repair at some point.
Underconfidence is when no matter if you had a lead or not, you always really thought the other team was more likely to win, and you kept yourself from winning based on that mentality.
Underconfidence by Solid Mantis November 29, 2020