Quote Originally Posted by Delilah View Post
I like this perspective too - do you assume this perspective for most things you do? I just have a degree of anxiety when starting new things so tend to need to calm myself so another person saying this helps me.
From what you've written in the thread, it seems like the difference between our confidence levels in approach to tasks hinges on how confident we are in our ability to find a path forward. If I'm given a task I don't know how to do, I don't sweat it because I know I can piece something together, and I like doing it. If I can't do it, usually I'm able to say up front: I'll try, but you (task assigner) need to understand I might fail, because I understand what I know and don't know about what's ahead of me.