Emotional resilience, and belief in one&#x27;s self are common traits of many successful people.<p>The better developers I&#x27;ve worked with definitely demonstrate this. When debugging code or working through a problem they seem certain they&#x27;ll be able to fix it, even when there&#x27;s no solution in sight.<p>I&#x27;m the opposite of this. All too often I find myself thinking &quot;it&#x27;s too hard, I can&#x27;t do it, I&#x27;m not intelligent enough..&quot; etc. I know it&#x27;s counter-productive and I try to fight it but these thoughts often seem to win.<p>I have failed at most things in my career so far. It might be that I simply don&#x27;t have the intellect for it, but I suspect that my lack of self belief has also played a role.<p>Does anyone have experience of beating these feelings and becoming a more emotionally resilient person? Did you achieve more as a result?
Ask HN: How did you build self belief?