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In the midst of constant change, it can be easy to feel knocked around by forces outside our control. In Buddhist terminology, these forces are often referred to as the eight worldly winds: pleasure and pain, praise and blame, fame and insignificance, and success and failure.\nAccording to meditation teacher Ethan Nichtern, working with these pairs of opposites can help us develop genuine confidence in the face of life\u2019s challenges. In his new book, Confidence: Holding Your Seat Through Life\u2019s Eight Worldly Winds, he explores how we can navigate the vicissitudes of life with trust and resilience.\xa0\nIn this episode of Life As It Is, Tricycle\u2019s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg sit down with Nichtern to discuss how the worldly winds of pleasure and pain can ground us in felt experience, the interplay between hope and fear, how we can learn to tap into our own enoughness, and what self-confidence looks like in the absence of a stable self.