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Have to reply here, since there's a limit to nesting depth. To me, confidence stems from knowledge and experience. A confident person can back up their assert
by donw 16y ago
Have to reply here, since there's a limit to nesting depth.
To me, confidence stems from knowledge and experience. A confident person can back up their assertions to a very deep level. They can explain and defend their reasoning. With this also comes the experience that the world isn't perfect, and that sometimes you just need to do something you don't want to do.
Arrogance, on the other hand, is nothing but ego and fear. Fear that anything that might threaten that huge ego. An arrogant man has little knowledge or wisdom, but plenty of bullshit to masquerade as such.
A confident man can lose well. An arrogant man can't.
- lsc 16y ago>To me, confidence stems from knowledge and experience. To me, this entire continuum from not confident, to confident to arrogant has to do with how you act when you encounter a new situation, or some other unknown, well, and how you act around other people in a social situation. Re-reading my posts, this is obviously most of what I'm talking about. The guy I think of as the least confident guy I know is an absolutely awesome c++ programmer. Incredible. The man holds himself like he thinks you are about to punch him. He looks a good four inches shorter than he really is because of his posture. He speaks with such a soft voice that he's usually got to repeat himself several times when he orders food. In any sort of social situation, he looks pretty uncomfortable. But if you talk about C++? He'll look you in the eye and say "I don't write segmentation faults" or "My code has no buffer overflows." and he believes it, too. (hell, after working with him, I believe it.) - but to me, that doesn't seem like confidence. that's just experience, and being obviously very, very good at something. >A confident man can lose well. An arrogant man can't. Logically, I don't think that is the whole story, but emotionally, I really like that definition.
- Psyonic 16y agoI think thats precisely what confidence is. He makes statements that would be arrogant coming from someone less experienced, but since he can back it up, its confidence.
- tome 16y ago> Have to reply here, since there's a limit to nesting depth. Not as far as I know, and if there is, a depth of 4 or 5 isn't it! Sometimes the "reply" link doesn't appear and you have to reply via the permalink "link" instead.