How is it that people can commit to things? Why do they believe they will succeed?

Why and how can they believe in themselves? Where does that faith come from
EDIT: Or perhaps i should say where does your faith in yourself come from?

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mic11225 · 26-30, M

@Alex1610 What hope is that? where does it come from? How strong is it? What would it take for you to lose faith in yourself?

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Hope is hope. It comes from confidence, love, positivity, etc. Hope doesn't have just one strength, it changes in different circumstances. What would it take for me to lose faith in myself? My insecure, my lack of any certain skills, etc.
Hope, faith, beliefs, love, feelings, etc come within us naturally, we were born with them, nothing specific created them. There's no actual or accurate explanation for stuff like that. Let me ask you something, where does everything come from? By everything, I mean everything single thing, everything!

mic11225 · 26-30, M

@Alex1610 The ability to hope is something we are born with but I don't think we are born with what our current hopes and dreams are. I think that's something we develop through our experience with ourselves and our environment. Although there are not accurate explanations for how it works (at least I don't think) I do know that how we feel is directly connected to our physical body, and really our brains, like the endocrine system for example, or things like dopamine or serotonin. If you are asking where all matter and all energy in the universe comes from it's not something we are capable of truly knowing because he can't view that far back in the past if there even is a point. To me what seems most reasonable is that all the matter, and energy in the universe(or at least some of it) has always existed. Energy and matter are conserved but take different forms and everything that exists is just the current form of that same matter and energy from the past. Although that belief is based on my ignorance of complex physics and my lack of accepting any religion.

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Lol I didn't say we were born with our current hopes, I said we were born with hopes inside us. By the way, I didn't ask the question because I wanted to know where everything comes from, I asked because I knew there'd be no accurate or true explanations for it (which is right), and because I also wanted to say that your question is the same as mine