Difference between confidence and arrogance?

Syringer

Lifer
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Can you be both, one or the other?

And if you consider yourself confident, does that make you arrogant?

Or if you're arrogant and acknowledge it, does that make you confident?
 

Kadarin

Lifer
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Originally posted by: loki8481
arrogance is confidence without the skills to back it up.

Not quite. Overconfidence is what you are describing. Arrogance, on the other hand, is when you project your own perceived superiority on others.
 

IGBT

Lifer
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Originally posted by: loki8481
arrogance is confidence without the skills to back it up.


..and the insistence that you somehow know what's best for others or society.