I am the best!

Harsh is the best in everything that can be done. Put anything in front of him and he can do it very easily. Sports, studies, or anything it may be, he is the best in all of them. The problem is, that Harsh is so good that people around feel jealous of him and cheat to win against him. All this is completely true, but only in the eyes of Harsh himself.

People who know him have very different opinions about him. His friends think that he overstates himself too much. Even while playing a sport never played before, Harsh would believe that he is good at it. Even after so much overestimation, he never performs well in any sports he participated in. He even thinks that he is good at singing and dancing but has nothing to prove this, and his friends have a pretty good idea of how bad his singing is. He is good in academics but he thinks of himself as the best in the school, which is not the case. Harsh struggles a lot due to this overestimated image he has of himself. He gets angry very easily when what he does not match the promises he makes. Other people are also many times disappointed by him due to this behavior. 

After a lot of hardships, Harsh started to realize that he had developed the habit of overestimating himself. He figured that even if he did not know anything, he tried to make others believe that he did. While thinking about all this, Harsh asked himself, “Why am I doing all this? Why do I want to tell everyone that I am the best?” He somewhere got the answer that he wanted to make a confident impression on others and hence ended up exaggerating about himself. 

He said, “If I continue to do this, people will eventually realize my truth and will think that I am very much overconfident. Even I would think that someone who just talks and never shows, is a very overconfident person. I should try to change my habit before it starts harming me even more.” Realising this, Harsh completely changed the way he presented himself to others. His attitude also changed because of this. The next time he was introduced to something new, instead of saying “I’m great at it”, he started saying “I will try to be good at this” He also started to understand what his strengths and weaknesses were and told others about them, instead of just falsely bragging.

What we learned

Being proud of the things we are good at is confidence, and it’s great to have. But having the idea that “I am good at everything” is overconfidence, and we should try to stay away from such thinking.