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12. Be Open to New Ideas Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. —Earl Gray Stevens Being open to new ideas when you are looking to solve a problem is what true learning (as well as confidence-building) is all about. Believe in your own resources and those of people you trust. If you try to do it all yourself, micro-manage every detail, and don’t welcome new and innovative ideas from those around you, it’s gonna be hard to make it to the next level, or even survive where you currently are. It is always wise to get some input from the competent people with whom you’ve surrounded yourself. Unless you want to live in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, without a connection to the modern world, you are going to be influenced by everything and everyone around you. Accept the influence, allow it to become a part of you, and let it make you the best you can be. Just be sure to give credit to those people who inspired you. It makes sense: If you’re secure with yourself, telling someone she had a great idea that you’d like to incorporate would be taken as a compliment. And the truth is that their idea actually did complement yours. Sometimes the “off the wall” thought, the one you were just messing around with, is the one that makes the