foresight foundation

The man of self confidence is often a compelling figure. Driven and focused, he is committed to bring the world into line with his vision of how the world should be. He may genuinely believe that his vision for the world is a good one, that the world will be a better place if he can shape it to his will and sometime he is capable of making changes for the better. But there is a danger to this attitude as well. Too often it turns out that the blustery self-confidence of such a person hides its own darker origins: it is really just arrogance combined with ambition, or worse yet a kind of self-delusion. As a result, when his plans fail, as they are bound to do at least some of the time, the self-confident man is often unable to recognize the failure. Stubbornly and inflexibly committed to his vision of how things ought to be, he has no ability to respond to the world as it actually is. The self-confident man believes that confidence is its own virtue; at the extreme, this kind of self-confidence can lead to fanaticism.

promare source call

Let us not think that we can justify all extreme actions by putting the blame, ‘On necessity, the excuse of tyrants.’