When I was a little girl, I was filled with all the self-confidence of the world. But then, things started to change. I started encountering situations where mean things were said to me. I also encountered my fair share of failures. Slowly and slowly, my self-confidence was shattered into pieces. And I had to work really hard to gain that self-confidence. One thing that I learned in this process is that self-confidence is a skill, and like any other skill, it can be built if you work on it.  The people that you admire, because they are beaming with self-confidence, didn’t become self-confident in a day. They have trained themselves…