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Overconfidence can cause a person to experience problems because he may not prepare properly for a situation or may get into a dangerous situation that he is not equipped to handle. Some examples of overconfidence include: A person who thinks his sense of direction is much better than it actually is. https://t.me/MkNotes/886

THE ILLUSION OF CONFIDENCE IT IS REASONABLE FOR US TO EMBRACE TENTATIVENESS AND MODESTY AS NOBLE CHARACTERISTICS, OR STRENGTHS OF CHARACTER, MUCH LIKE POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY NOW RECOMMENDS, AND THUS WELCOME BACK THE UNCERTAIN PHRASE, “I ’M N O T S U R E”. *************************************** “Be confident” is one of the most essential pieces of advice you will receive from parents and other well-meaning individuals…. Be confident” is one of the most essential pieces of advice you will receive from parents and other well-meaning individuals. Confidence is hailed as a characteristic of a great leader. I cannot remember how many times, I have had to train myself on confidence and poise. However, I am interested in humans who aren’t confident. Those who have read everything they could find on the topic, attended several training events but still secretly struggle. I find that when I want it so bad, I cannot be still. My lips and hands will gain a mind of their own, moving without any effort. Sometimes my eyes refuse to cooperate, quickly sinking into riotous blinks. As soon as my alert mind declares that this is important, my whole being starts vibrating to imaginary native music that only an actual appearance by Osayomore Joseph, the famous Bini musician would calm. Teachers and Speakers need to appear confident lest a student think, we are not sure of what we are saying. The need to create the illusion of confidence is borne out of our perfectionist culture. My father has a favourite quote which says “life is for the firsts not the also rans”. He said it often enough to make me want to come first in everything including speaking about causes I am passionate about. However, research has shown that confidence is not a good indicator of ability. Cognitive scientists, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons suggests that IT IS REASONABLE FOR US TO EMBRACE TENTATIVENESS AND MODESTY AS NOBLE CHARACTERISTICS, OR STRENGTHS OF CHARACTER, MUCH LIKE POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY NOW RECOMMENDS, AND THUS WELCOME BACK THE UNCERTAIN PHRASE, “I’M NOT SURE”. Pray tell, would we have tolerated the likes of the English theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking? ARE OUR LEADERS INCLUDING THE RELIGIOUS FOLKS ALLOWED TO SHOW TRUE HUMAN EMOTIONS? CAN OUR TEACHERS STUTTER SOMETIMES? DO OUR KIDS ALWAYS HAVE TO COME FIRST IN CLASS TO BE VALUABLE? DO NOT LET ANYTHING STOP YOU FROM REACHING YOUR TRUEST POTENTIAL INCLUDING YOUR INABILITY TO COMMUNICATE LIKE THOSE ON TELEVISION. YOU CAN LEARN AS YOU GROW BUT BY ALL MEANS START YOUR JOURNEY. WE CANNOT ALL BE FLAWLESS SPEAKERS BUT WE CAN CHANNEL OUR HEARTS TO THE CORE OF OUR MESSAGE. USUALLY, TO TRANSFORM HUMANITY ALL YOU NEED IS A CONVICTION IN YOURSELF THAT YOU CAN BRING ABOUT POSITIVE CHANGE IN YOUR GENERATION. THAT IS CONFIDENCE AS DEFINED BY YOUR INNER LOCUS OF UNDERSTANDING. THIS WILL TAKE YOU AS FAR AS YOU NEED TO GO. NOW THAT YOU KNOW YOU CAN. START! https://www.motivatingafrica.com/personal-development/the-illusion-of-confidence https://t.me/MkNotes/885

Classic short stories that introduce American literature to intermediate English learners. My First Selection, O Henry. 1. 'Hearts and Crosses,' by O. Henry, Part One 2. The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock by O. Henry 3. 'Mammon and the Archer' by O. Henry 4. 'One Thousand Dollars,' by O. Henry 5. 'The Gift of the Magi,' by O. Henry 6. Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen by O. Henry 7. The Furnished Room by O. Henry 8. A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry 9. 'After Twenty Years,' by O.Henry t.me/MkNotes/343 10. 'Transients in Arcadia' by O. Henry 11. 'From the Cabby's Seat,' by O. Henry 12. 'The Romance of a Busy Broker' by O. Henry 13. 'The Count and the Wedding Guest' by O. Henry 14. 'The Cop and the Anthem,' by O. Henry 15. 'The Exact Science of Matrimony' by O. Henry 16. 'The Ransom of Red Chief,' by O. Henry 17. A Municipal Report by O. Henry learningenglish.voanews.com/z/1581

Why Trump Decided Not to Attack Iran – Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/06/21/trump-fearing-casualties-aborts-iran-strike-at-last-minute/?utm_source=PostUp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=13791&utm_term=Editor#39;s Picks OC

Why You Need to Grow Up Children know what grown ups look like - they’re the big ones who drive cars, don’t go to school and get to stay up well past bedtime. Once we’re older - once we have jobs, own cars, and can go to bed whenever we choose - it’s only natural to conclude that we’ve become grown ups ourselves. But the assumptions about maturity we carry from childhood obscure a deeper truth: how in many ways, despite the lateness of our bedtime, we remain, fundamentally, children. We probably still accept without question the authority of our bosses and seniors as we once did that of our parents. We’re probably still ashamed of our sexuality and our temptations to be naughty. And when we’re upset, we’re still liable to rage and sulk rather than calmly address what’s really bothering us.  We need to grow up emotionally - a process that begins by accepting all the ways in which we’re still immature.   ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, https://mailchi.mp/theschooloflife/why-you-need-to-grow-up?e=62fb72e0b8

How to Become an Adult It should be obvious, of course. We’re grown ups now. We’re physically mature, we have a job, can drive a car, use the internet at will and stay up very late. But such objective markers of adulthood have a habit of failing to reflect our underlying psychological realities. Our development as true adults may lag many decades behind any official date of maturity. In the way our emotions operate, out of the reach of conscious awareness, with nothing derogatory being meant by this, most of us continue to function rather like the small children we once were. Around characters who look authoritative or are senior to us we might – for example – habitually become passive and hugely timid. We may imbue them with unwarranted authority and expect them to know all the answers. The idea of contradicting them can feel utterly out of the question. Or perhaps, in other contexts, we may experience an intense guilt around our sexuality, feeling an exaggerated need to exhibit signs of purity and goodness – as if our uninhibited bodily selves would necessarily provoke disgust and disappointment. Or, rather than explain what is bothering us, we may settle for rage or sulks, the two traditional moves to which very small people have recourse. It can take an immensely long-time to realise emotionally, rather than merely intellectually, that the scripts we are following were formed many years before in circumstances that no longer apply; that the small corner of world we grew up in as children does not reflect how the wider world operates or what it really demands – and that the repertoire of responses we learnt for dealing with the authority figures of childhood doesn’t have to continue to define how we relate to humanity in general. We may have been defined as ‘the quiet one’, or ‘the rebel’, the ‘victim’ or the ‘strong one’ but such labels don’t have to continue to determine our identities. It can take so long for us to realise we are free. We wait for years for permission to leave an unsatisfactory job that no one cares if we abandoned tomorrow; we live in terror that we will disappoint ‘public opinion’ on to which we have projected the expectations of parents who are no longer alive. We wait for praise from ‘those that know’, even though there aren’t really any such people. We are terrified of unleashing an anger that we would now be able to walk away from. Becoming an emotional adult means learning to lean on a much wider repertoire of behaviours towards other people. Someone in authority can be mistaken; we can annoy someone and survive; sex doesn’t have to prove revolting; we can calmly state what has hurt us and be heard. We start on the path to genuine adulthood when we stop insisting on our emotional competence and acknowledge the extent to which we are – in many areas of our psyche – likely to be sharply trailing our biological age. Realising we aren’t – as yet, in subtle ways – quite adults may be the start of true maturity. www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/how-to-become-an-adult/?utm_source=The+School+of+Life&utm_campaign=403acca966-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_21_11_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_717e06d46b-403acca966-22277669&mc_cid=403acca966&mc_eid=62fb72e0b8

ABCNews President Trump ordered military strike on Iran, but reversed at last second: Sources Jun 20, 2019 President Trumps summoned congressional leaders to the White House Situation Room for a high stakes military and intelligence briefing on Iran. President Donald Trump ordered a military strike on Iran late Thursday, but reversed his decision after a plan was already underway, according to sources familiar with the matter. The sources tell ABC News the president’s reason for changing course was unclear, but the reversal was against the advice of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton. The plan and reversal was first reportedby The New York Times. A senior level administration source briefed on the plan says it would have escalated the situation quickly had it been carried out. Officials feared the attack could have caused hundreds of civilian casualties. Iran shot down a U.S. drone early Thursday, claiming it had flown into the country's airspace. The U.S. government claims it was operating in international airspace. Trump called Iran's decision to shoot down the drone "loose and stupid" when speaking to the press following a discussion with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The comments came following a morning meeting with his top national security advisers over the downing of what the U.S. military said was an unarmed and unmanned U.S. RQ-4A Global Hawk drone flying over the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz. Shortly before, Trump had tweeted that "Iran made a very big mistake" after a top Iranian commander warned Iran was "ready for war." Top politicians from the Senate and House, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, met with administration officials over the downed drone Thursday afternoon. "The president may not intend to go to war here, but we're worried that he and the administration may bumble into a war," Schumer said. President Donald Trump listens to a question during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, June 20, 2019, in Washington. Pelosi called it a "dangerous situation" and cautioned the president that the U.S. "cannot be reckless in what we do." Gen. Hossein Salami, commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, offered a strongly worded threat to the U.S. after the drone was downed. "Shooting down the American spy drone had a clear, decisive, firm and accurate message," he said, translated from Farsi. "The message is that the guardians of the borders of Islamic Iran will decisively respond to the violation of any stranger to this land. The only solution for the enemies is to respect the territorial integrity and national interests of Iran." https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/president-trump-ordered-military-strike-iran-reversed-sources/story?id=63853570

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CIGARETTE: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other! MARRIAGE: It's an agreement wherein a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her master COMPROMISE: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece LECTURE: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either CONFERENCE: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present CONFERENCE ROOM: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on ECSTASY: A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before CLASSIC: A book which people praise, but never read SMILE: A curve that can set a lot of things straight! OFFICE: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life YAWN: The only time when some married men ever get to open their mouth EXPERIENCE: The name men give to their Mistakes DIPLOMAT: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip OPTIMIST: A person who while falling from EIFFEL TOWER says in midway "SEE I AM NOT INJURED YET!" MISER: A person who lives poor so that he can die RICH! FATHER: A banker provided by nature BOSS: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early POLITICIAN: One who shakes your Hand before elections and your Confidence later DOCTOR: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by his bills !!

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