There is no way that the modern attitude to ‘self confidence’ has anything to do with anything that people considered a maalah or a chisaron in Europe in the 1800’s. There is not one of the classical baalei mussar who talks about the modern symptoms of what we call not being self confident. Just becuase you are in a society where people have set a certain norm and you do not fit into that norm does not mean that there is something wrong with you or that you can’t live happily your entire life doing what you are good at in the way that you do it.
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