What is confidence and how can it be pulled off?

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I've realized some things like how a lot of my issues stem from a lack of self-affirmation more particularly a lack of self-confidence. For a long time, I've found it unneccesary and have used information, knowledge and philosophy* as a kind of "armor" in a way, instead of self-confidence. "After all,who needs self-confidence and the shaking it can get when you have the verity and/or consistency of facts and perception(s)?", my thinking goes.

*by extension, a thing which comes with the kind of deep emotionally charged thinking I can habitually do.

The last year-ish I've been steadily learning about what negation and emptiness really means though but have only recently recognized "self-affirmation" and the qualities related to it. For me at least, self-confidence might do me better prior to self-acceptance since with the phrase self-acceptance my mind goes "self-accept?,self-accept what?,what's there to accept?,in my myself?,..but the self is an illusion...[x,y,z etc]". Self-confidence is a primer for self-affirmation and will help me develop a sense of not being "groundless" and bewildered at what relevance I hold or factors hold.

For example right now as counterproductive as it might be, I would like to be confident enough to do my homework but I think that maybe by talking about this important topic I'm procrastating from taking action which I should take but I'm not very confident once I do enter "the sphere of action".