I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.
Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.