Very rarely does stress....

....and pressure come from other people.  Virtually all of it comes from somewhere deep within ourselves. We react badly to expectations that we feel we must live up to. We push ourselves too far in an effort to meet these, and then others find us irritable at best.

They can't hear the thoughts in the back of our minds. Nor can they grasp why we see them as partly responsible for our stress. And, in a way, they are not.

Confidence isn't defined by walking into a room and measuring yourself against everyone in it and thinking that you're better than them.  

It's not having to compare yourself with anyone at all.