According to Osho, genuine self-confidence cannot be manufactured; it flowers when comparison stops and you simply accept your natural being. The ego’s need to be extraordinary breeds restlessness and false bravado. Drop measuring yourself against others, abandon ideals of becoming someone else, relax into your ordinariness. In simple self-acceptance, a quiet, unshakable trust in life—and in yourself—arises by itself.
Stop comparing and trying to be special; just be yourself, and a calm, natural trust appears.