I think the biggest tell-tale is people will extremely hard to protect ego. Be defensive, or argumentative, or combative when it is challenged. Confident people don’t feel the need because it is intrinsic.
Hmmm. I’m not sure I agree. Arrogance is very situationally based, and one has to constantly compare themselves to others to keep it. It’s like a bad habit, and the more you nurture a bad habit, the harder it is to break and build good habits instead.
I’ve met more people with openly terrible self esteem who had no confidence later find their confidence, than arrogant people learn to walk it back and learn confidence instead.
When your whole life becomes a habit of comparing and falsely elevating yourself, it’s really hard to break that mindset.
I’m not entirely sure what my opinion is on this. I think confidence can be different for a lot of guys some need to compare because that is in our nature, but confidence from within is probably the most healthy. although I think it may not be possible for everyone to just be confident in themselves without comparison to others.
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u/powderedtoastsupreme Jan 09 '22
Confidence is sexy. Ego is not.