Okay. He then goes on to illustrate what he means by it:
> [Elon Musk] talked in detail about manufacturing every part of the rocket, but the thing that sticks in memory was the look of absolute certainty on his face when he talked about sending large rockets to Mars.
That kind of certainty is not self-belief. I think the intuitive feeling that your idea is going to work has nothing or very little to do with the general belief in self. Intuition is usually a result of a lot of computation in the subconsciousness that's delivered in the form of a feeling. The longer you think about something that your subconscious approves, the greater your confidence will be on the conscious level.
But that is pretty rare. Most of the time you play with ideas in your mind, that yield various degrees of this intuitive confidence: from none to "Okay, maybe worth a try" to "Oh wow, I am going to do this before anyone else!". Again, it's all about computation.
The general self-belief, on the other hand, is irrational, stupid and dangerous too. I'd say maybe people with pathological self-esteem problems might need some dose of general self-belief, but normally it should not be used as a driving or defining factor of what entrepreneurship is.
Okay. He then goes on to illustrate what he means by it:
> [Elon Musk] talked in detail about manufacturing every part of the rocket, but the thing that sticks in memory was the look of absolute certainty on his face when he talked about sending large rockets to Mars.
That kind of certainty is not self-belief. I think the intuitive feeling that your idea is going to work has nothing or very little to do with the general belief in self. Intuition is usually a result of a lot of computation in the subconsciousness that's delivered in the form of a feeling. The longer you think about something that your subconscious approves, the greater your confidence will be on the conscious level.
But that is pretty rare. Most of the time you play with ideas in your mind, that yield various degrees of this intuitive confidence: from none to "Okay, maybe worth a try" to "Oh wow, I am going to do this before anyone else!". Again, it's all about computation.
The general self-belief, on the other hand, is irrational, stupid and dangerous too. I'd say maybe people with pathological self-esteem problems might need some dose of general self-belief, but normally it should not be used as a driving or defining factor of what entrepreneurship is.