Ayn Rand and Confidence

Ayn Rand was a novelist and known for her novels and ideas around relationships, confidence and self esteem. She was born is Russia but emigrated later to America. She was also a screen writer and playwright. However she was best known for her novels like Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and also for her philosophy known as objectivism.

According to her, Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness.

Further she says that the man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth. Confidence is actually the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness. Also, self-esteem is a man’s certainty in his belied that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living.

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