Is there a fine variance between self-belief and self-confidence or are the two phrases fully interchangeable?
That’s very interesting… I think I see it much the way the previous poster mentioned. The two are, in my opinion, interchangeable, but self-belief seems to lend itself more to deep, core, abstract faith and trust. To me, self-confidence, though very similar, is slightly more of a physical manifestation, a determination. If I say to myself, “I believe in my ability to –“, for some reason I feel it and have faith in it in a different way than if I say, “I am confident that I can –“. I feel that I can inflate or mask or exaggerate the self-confidence in a way that I can’t do with self-belief — the latter is closer to the core of how much faith I truly do or do not have in myself without false pretense. And I’m discovering this as I go along, so please forgive if it’s nonsensical…
