Given the self-confidence of this work, it's strange to note the anxiety that Yiadom-Boakye provokes in some critics.
"Hip-hop and SlumGods gave us the self confidence that we badly needed," he says.
It may be the deep rooted insecurity that leads most entrepreneurs to try to build companies in the first place – getting bought doesn't necessarily give them the self confidence they thought it would.
The life skills acquired, together with the experience of conducting peer education and social mobilisation activities, has given young people the self confidence to actively participate in a range of settings, such as the YPHD Task Force and YHD Forum.
Sister Karuna, a soft-spoken young nun from Ladakh in the north of India, says kung fu has given the nuns self confidence and also helps in meditation.
In other words, power gives the nurse self-confidence, and self-confidence brings with it the feeling of power.
Working on real-world business problems in the community gives the students self-confidence and a feeling that there are people out there who care about them and are on the same team as them".
"It helps them to break their isolation, and gives them self confidence," explained Komiljon Karimov, UNICEF HIV/AIDS Specialist.
Give kids self confidence.
Volunteer, this will most likely give you more self confidence.
By contrast, in the nineteen-nineties a newly resurgent brand of xenophobic nationalism gave the adolescent Szegedi self-confidence and a sense of mission — in his words, "a strong feeling of belonging somewhere".
