It is passion. Passion is persistence on steroids. Even when I am faced with extreme obstacles I am best able to overcome them when I love what I am doing. Having passion for something focuses your mind on asking the right questions. This is the advantage to confidence as well. But if you don’t have confidence having passion can get you the same effect.

When you truly love something you enjoy it so much that you don’t get frustrated as often or tripped up over the little things. You don’t constantly think about what can go wrong. You put your mind in the right emotional frame. Passion gives you the benefits of confidence even when logically you feel like confidence would be faking it.

At the end of the day, there are some things you just don’t know. And when you don’t have the confidence trying to delude yourself with false confidence both feels and is wrong. But passion makes up for the gap. Being in the moment and having a true love for what you are doing and avoiding the stress that comes with the surprising twists and turns is the key that keeps me going.