How can I be confident if there's nothing to be confident about?

[Anonymous]

There's nothing good about me and I fail everything I try to do. I can't seem to improve. I have no skills, I'm not good to others, and I can't seem to change anything. I'm already too old to start building all the skills I need, there's no more time for me to take to improve. Plus, every time I try to improve I just fail, every single time. It'd make no sense for me to be confident when there's nothing good about me.

[MCheetah]

Gain things to be confident about and take up some skills and hobbies. Inner confidence comes from a resume of accomplishments, skills, talents, and achievements one has collected in their life. If your inner confidence CV is empty, then start filling it up with some skills and start learning more things in life. Martial arts is a good one.

All of this, so I've been told.

[Guy13]

Perhaps a counselor is a good place to start as that you can determine a direction?

[Anonymous]

No one in this world was born without any skills. What kind of improvement did u try?

[Asker]

Just being clean and having basic social skills mostly, I haven't even gotten to work ethic. I'm way too old to still not be able to do any of this and I still just keep failing whenever I try. I can't even wake up at a reasonable time. I also practiced some piano, but I'm too old for that too and I forgot most of it already.

[Opinion Owner]

never to old to improve and try. can you elaborate on how u do the basic social skills?

[Asker]

I can't because there's no way for me to know what I'm doing wrong or right, no matter how hard I try. People won't just tell me. I try to do whatever makes me feel the least stupid socially, because I try just talking to people and being nice, but it doesn't work.