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At Mott I coached a kid in track who streaked at a Tigers game for the sake of YouTube views (give the kid some clicks here). That was the most gangsta thing I'd ever seen at a baseball game.

Up until last night.

I went to an 8u softball game for the Farm System kids and in the middle of the 6th inning, under the lights, with all the parents and siblings and coaches and players watching, some little 2 year-old girl ran into the dugout and stripped butt-ass naked. Not for the sake of YouTube subscribers, not for rebellion, and not even to go pee. It just seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

Witnessed by everyone hereContrast that to our last basketball practice for the AAU season a few days earlier: we were dividing up teams of high school all-americans into shirts and skins; neither side wanted to take their shirts off.

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One of the things I learned from Andy Bernstein (creator of Avtive Insight) recently is that everyone is born with confidence; we sing out of tune at the top of our lungs, dance off-rhythm, try new things, fall, and, obviously, strip down naked without a care in the world...

... until someone says something.

In the little girl's case, her mom rushed into the dugout, face blushed, yelling random sentence fragments, and quickly pulled the clothes back on her daughter. From the mom's perspective, nobody else's kid was showing off their buttcheeks in the dugout; from the little girl's perspective, everyone's got buttcheeks even if they're not showing them off.

If you are lacking in confidence - either in general or in a specific area - instead of trying to artificially build it up with positive self talk and affirmations that have a limited shelf life, work to destroy beliefs than erode our confidence and challenge the voices those beliefs originated from. The more we can be like our 2 year-old selves, the more confident we'll be.