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Well if you always end up being right are you not becoming more confident in your assertions?

• bhsiao 11y ago
  I don't think that's it. He says he tends to arrive at right answers after long and careful thought while people around him jump into conclusions and force them forward.
  • jcroll 11y ago
    There's no magic bullet for confidence. You can try faking it till you make it. Ultimately good work will lead to confidence. If a bunch of boisterous sales guys were constantly "alphaing" me with erroneous solutions and I knew with some thought I could come up with something better I know I would start to gain confidence through that process.
• arsenide 11y ago
  The distinction lies in the difference between being confident and acting confident.
  • jcroll 11y ago
    You can act confident without being confident but if you are confident you will be confident.
    • arsenide 11y ago
      Hm? Though I am confident about a choice few of my political beliefs I don't often act as such, and experience tells me it is also not received that way.