Comments on: How to Overcome a Lack of Academic Confidence

on 4/30/2008 This article helped me in getting rid some of the academic inferiority I have felt for years, I'm a senior in high school now and every day I wished I could go back to when it started so I could have done better, I'm tired of wishing I was taking honors classes because I wanted others to think I was smart, I thought taking those would make me feel smart, but this article helped to relieve some of the pain, and it actually inspired me to do the best I can when I leave for college, I am smart, I know I am, I just wished I had actually believed that earlier.

on 4/30/2008 This article helped me in getting rid some of the academic inferiority I have felt for years, I'm a senior in high school now and every day I wished I could go back to when it started so I could have done better, I'm tired of wishing I was taking honors classes because I wanted others to think I was smart, I thought taking those would make me feel smart, but this article helped to relieve some of the pain, and it actually inspired me to do the best I can when I leave for college, I am smart, I know I am, I just wished I had actually believed that earlier.

on 8/17/2006 There has been so many times in school were I knew the right answer to a question the teacher was asking to the class, but I wouldn't raise my hand because I feared getting it wrong. Once the correct answer was said, I would get mad at myself for not speaking up. Now I take my chances and it feels good.

on 11/22/2005 Never tell yourself that you are dumb. It's a self-fullfilling prophecy. If you tell yourself that you are dumb, you begin thinking that way. Always tell yourself that you can succeed and that you are smart.