unflagging confidence in his ideas that spurred others to believe in him. His experience thus became the rallying point for which he would love to see his son’s ideas come to fruition.
Confidence is one necessary virtue that can stand you out. It affects and influences people. It co-heres people into believing in your idea. However, you do have to have an idea worth being confident about.
There are varying categories of ideas. These could be political ideas, inspirational ideas, academic ideas, or ideas about just anything. What you believe about something, which is different from what others believe, is your idea. Idea refers to a particular thought pattern. Sometimes this thought pattern may interfere with the belief of others, and may be considered estranged to the principles already known.
Regardless the prevailing idea or notion carried by the people, if you believe your idea is the best, you do have to stand and prove why your idea is worth considering. New ideas often find it difficult to challenge prevailing ideas. What brings a new idea to the fore is when the conceiver of the idea projects life into it by showing an unrelenting confidence. This confidence must be strong enough to captivate the minds of those to whom you are trying to prove the worthiness of your idea.
Children are frail and shaky and cower to the intimidating strength of an opposition even when they have a good point to defend. This was Abraham Lincoln’s observation of his son. He decided he would have to do something. He ordered the teacher to “teach him to have faith in his own ideas even if others tell him they are wrong.” He is sending the same words to parents and teachers.
Parents have to build in their wards confidence. Parents should not develop the habit of making rubbish of their ward’s work even if they do get it wrong. Parents have to find a score point even within their child’s poor idea and encourage their ward around that point. If he can succeed in one, he can succeed in all. Often kids always want to prove a point.
All they do look out for is the inspiration and motivation to carry out their ideas. Parents must realize that great ideas were the result of faulty ideas that had to be worked on and perfected. Whisper faith into your child’s ears; let him know someone at home believes in his ideas. This will be the starting point for the crowd outside to believe. However, once the child loses confidence in his ideas from home, it would be difficult gathering the stake out there.
Teachers have a great duty to do in boosting the confidence of their wards. True, the teachers have to deal with lots of students whose capability defer. As much as they defer, each have unique strengths and talent that others do not have. To rubbish a child because he fails to meet up with one criterion could limit the child’s ability to shine even in his area of strength.
Teachers have come to realize that they cannot measure a child’s capacity by just his classroom heroics. A child may not be outstanding in class but he has an area where he stands out. He may find his strength in music, visual art, or even sports, which could also bring him to limelight. Teachers have a responsibility to help every child they come across discover their talent where they can get acclaim and where their idea would be worth the opinions.
When a child has confidence, he can defend his ideas. He could always quote his parents and teachers as believers. He believes that if his parents and teachers can believe, every other person will believe and this motivates him. He finds strength to defend his idea because he knows he has the backing of his ideas believers. That child would learn to develop his ideas, fine-tune them to perfection and when he is satisfied, that the idea is worth pushing, he would go ahead and push it to limelight.
Abraham believed that his ideas would come top. He believed strongly that slavery was inhumane and as such queried the logic that had been the order of his day. He might not have had a voice in the lower chambers of government but he found it as president and went ahead to pursue his idea even if it took his life. Let your child believe in his ideas and let him do, his idea may just be the rallying point for the next big thing.