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What is the difference between confidence and arrogance?
What is the difference between confidence and arrogance?
Confidence can hear a correction and stay in the room. Arrogance needs other people to be smaller so it can feel stable. You can be clear about what you know without performing rank.
What may actually be happening
People who were punished for speaking sometimes swing between silence and a loud certainty. Neither is confidence. Confidence is specific: this part I can do, that part I will check.
What you can do
State the work, not the ranking. 'I can finish the draft by Thursday. I want someone else on the numbers.' Ask one question in the meeting. Let a compliment land without a joke that erases it.
What not to do
Do not borrow arrogance as a costume for fear. Do not call every boundary arrogance, including your own. Do not shrink a true competence because someone else is loud.
Try this today
In one conversation, replace 'sorry, this might be dumb' with the actual point. If you were wrong, correct the fact. That sequence is confidence.