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.
by Solid Mantis November 30, 2020
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.
by Solid Mantis November 30, 2020
Neighborhood just below Murray Hill in the lower 30s on the east side of Manhattan. Murray Hill is well known as a reference, Kips Bay was home to Irish Catholic families and businesses in the 50s and 60s and earlier, being gentrified into newer high rise condo buildings through the 70s to today. Below 30 th street on the East side in the 20s was mostly Italians, above 30th was Irish. There was once an el train running down 2nd avenue through the neighborhood.
by Solid Mantis March 27, 2018
No matter how stupid or gullible some companies think people are, they know that people are smart enough to know who they can trust, so they put a guy like Will Ferrell in their commercial to comfort people.
Will Ferrell makes people comfortable, where some of the people you see in commercials you know you wouldn't trust in real life, you know they have making money on their mind and not much else.
by Solid Mantis February 13, 2021
A guy that they put in a commercial to comfort people because people trust him. Someone they don't trust in a commercial would put them on edge, not comfort them.
Will Ferrell is a guy that makes people feel comfortable, because they can sense that they would trust him in real life. He seems like an all right guy in real life. Not everybody you see in a commercial seems like someone you would trust in real life, and the people that make the ads know it, and use it to their advantage.
by Solid Mantis February 13, 2021
A guy that got beguiled most, if not all of his life by people around him because he would rather make people happy than fight, even at times that it made more sense to fight. People aren't going to tell you when they really think you're a sucker, and not a funny guy, no matter what they try to tell you that you are.
by Solid Mantis February 17, 2021
Growing up you had opponents, back when you could break each others bones. Then, opponents became rivals in college. Really rivals and rivalries are for college kids and the ancient Greeks.
by Solid Mantis June 15, 2018