This offers some real perspective, but it's still hard to tell how much confidence, or the lack of, factored into everything. If you don't appear to be confiden

This offers some real perspective, but it's still hard to tell how much confidence, or the lack of, factored into everything. If you don't appear to be confident about something it can be a turn off. I'm mention that not to deny sexism but to say that you should always exude confidence.