Build your foundations on it and start anew. It is never too late to gain back the confidence you have lost or the confident you never actually have. Take stock of yourself. From the moment of our birth to the day we die, our gifts would remain in us. The difference though lies in the way we were able to accept and enhance these realities. This inner critic will eat you up until it overpowers your sense of self. You will eventually be ruled with fears and anxiety over your amplified lacks. Of course you are worth everything. You are so endowed with talents, skills and personality that would make you fit for the world. So face it with all things you have. It is obvious that low self confidence can hinder us from our growth. It will always pull us down into the realms of mediocre life and dullness. It will make ways so that we would fit in the gaps of the non-achievers, the humiliated and the lowly people. There is no such world but because men tend not to listen to the voices that encourage them to believe in themselves, this world came forth to life. Initial development of self confidence roots from our childhood, the fashion by which we were reared, the opportunities that honed us to be the persons that we are and our reactions to the challenges that were given to us. At a very young age, we already know how it feels to be humiliated or encouraged. The difference though comes from our innate drive to improve and to develop. It also lies in our interpretations and acceptance of things. Say, we are too coward to face our very fears given that we are equipped with all the things that we need, then the problem now comes from our deliberate deprivation of the confidence we innately have. Children don't know these things though along with other things that are essential to living life fully. They are not even aware that the juncture they are presently into is the peak of initial development. Having said all these, it is but important that each of us recognize our impacts to a child's over all well being, from his childhood until he matures.