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Lack of Self Confidence and Sports

Do you feel embarrassed every time you have to play a soccer game with your friends because you don’t know how to play?
Do you think that you can never succeed in any sport?
Do you think that your performance is going to be worse than anyone else when it comes to sports?

Why You Aren't Confident at Sports

Some of us may believe that we are losers when it comes to playing sports. This feeling could be limited to a single sport or it could span all sports and physical activities. The main causes that could make you lack self confidence at sports are:

• Previous bad experiences: If you attempted to play a sport as a child and failed to perform well, you may grow up lacking confidence in that sport or in all sports.
• Thinking that you should start with a high initial skill: A very common belief is that people think that if they aren't particularly skilled at a sport initially, then they never will be and so they quit playing it. This is a completely incorrect attitude. No matter how you play a sport in the beginning, you can eventually play a lot better as long as you keep trying.
• Lacking Self Confidence When you lack self confidence in general, you usually doubt your ability of succeeding at anything that you've never tried before. If you didn’t have the courage to try that sport, or if you tried it once and failed, you may end up thinking that you have no skill at that game.

How to Be Confident at Sports

The solution is simple: you just have to believe that you can reach a high level of skill through practice. This means trying and failing, then trying again until you do it. Know that reaching whatever you want is a function of one thing: the number of tries.

The second thing you should do is to build your self confidence. Building your self confidence will give you the courage to try a new sport and will help you not to withdraw if you happen to fail. Doing so will give you the chance to develop the required skills and become confident at that sport.

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Did that help?

No, I really am unskilled.

No, how can my skill at something only depend on the number of times I try it?

Ok, but my problem is that I fear physical activities in general.