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I never understood the difference between narcisms and self confidence. The same way this article makes it unclear what the difference between being insecure an

• TheOtherHobbes 8y ago
  You can lack self-confidence and still have empathy for the welfare of others. Narcissists see other people entirely as threats or opportunities, not as separate individuals with lives and needs of their own. They literally have no concept of empathy. Their actions are motivated by a need to destroy and devalue any perceived threats to their fragile self-image, while cultivating people, projects, and situations that make them look and feel good in front of the imaginary audience that judges everything they do. There's no ability to think of others as equals. Everyone is either better or worse than a narcissist - not just in a passing way, but absolutely, infinitely, and obsessively.
• skedaddle 8y ago
  The difference is that narcissism is grandiose and fragile, based on a need for admiration rather than actual confidence, and fills in for a lack of self-worth. Confidence doesn't prevent you from acknowledging mistakes or flaws. Narcissism does, because their self worth is based on achievement and imagined flawlessness. They think that without these things they would be worthless and unlovable.