Word: self-doubt
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Projecting over-confidence while feeling under-confidence is the worst of all possible worlds. The trick is to nurture enough confidence to propel high achievement while avoiding either arrogance and complacency or debilitating self-doubt. Arrogance means feeling entitled to success without working for it, despair means feeling too overwhelmed and hopeless to even tackle the work. Confidence is the sweet spot in between...
Even the stories that meander in their own cleverness until they are bogged down in Wallace's detail-obsessive word marsh are still breathtakingly smart, like a middling Stoppard play. Strange, then, is the self-doubt that creeps into most of the tales, often in the form of acknowledging potential criticisms before the reader even thinks of them. And Wallace frequently seems to wonder whether his or any art is just a foolish attempt at uniqueness in a world where we're all fundamentally the same. His final story in the collection, The Suffering Channel, is the slightly drawn...
Klein's argument betrayed a basic misunderstanding of what faith is. True faith is marked by the absence of doubt. Large amounts of self-doubt do not make for solid and reliable leadership. What Klein espoused is the moral ambiguity that has brainwashed an entire generation of American intellectuals, who see the world in shades of gray. America is great because of the convictions of leaders like President Bush. TODD HANSELMAN Buford...
Superman in a church pouring out his heart to a priest. While Superman's back was turned, a million people vanished from earth, including Lois Lane, and he's powerless to do anything about it. He's a brooding, angry, heavily shadowed Superman, riddled with self-doubt. "For the first time, I was really afraid," he says. "Lost, without my rhythm." You get through the entire issue before you realize not a single punch has been thrown...
...Escher escalator. Who's to say the doomed lovers haven't fallen in love and broken up before? Maybe they've loved and lost a hundred times before, like the last damn level of a video game they can't beat? The possibility opens up bottomless gulfs of self-doubt. If our minds are as rippable, mixable and burnable as an MP3, how can we ever be sure we know...