Lumifer comments on Self-confidence and status - Less Wrong Discussion
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You are essentially defining self-confidence as a measure of how useful you are to others. That looks really strange to me.
Off the top of my head I would probably specify self-confidence to be a function of three variables:
Accordingly, to become more self-confident you should acquire more power, become more competent, and manage your risks.