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This reads as a point about mindset and leadership under pressure. It can be taken to mean that confidence is not a prediction, but a discipline, something a team or leader chooses to hold onto in public. It lands before a difficult presentation, game, or negotiation, when belief has to be voiced before results are known.
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Originally said in English.
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About Colin Powell
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