Confidence is the key to so many things in life. It can absolutely transform your life - especially if you learn it young. One of the things that it helps with the most is stress. Stress is most often caused by you feeling as though you don’t have control over the situation surrounding you, and you don’t like that situation.

By being more confident, you’ll find that you actually can influence the world around you in such a way that you’ll find it much more to your liking. When it comes to living, there’s a lot of stress in life.

Confidence can help is coping with stress. With confidence the individual is sure of themselves. They are able to look at situations and people with the ability to handle whatever happens in life even with adversity.

Confidence through the practice of Stoicism does not mean having an iron will to thrust through obstacles. It is about the ability to adapt through adversity to improve. It is about understanding that hardship and suffering are part of life but we can have a fulfilling life despite this.

Moral Letters 9.13. states "The wise man is self-sufficient." This phrase, my dear Lucilius, is incorrectly explained by many; for they withdraw the wise man from the world, and force him to dwell within his own skin. But we must mark with care what this sentence signifies and how far it applies; the wise man is sufficient unto himself for a happy existence, but not for mere existence. For he needs many helps towards mere existence; but for a happy existence he needs only a sound and upright soul, one that despises Fortune.