And if a person falls from a place of high confidence, he can begin trying to rebuild it by re-examining his physical reality and trying to operate in it ‘the way it is’. I think anyone is capable of failing ‘some number’ of times at something and lose their trust in themselves. I don’t think confidence survives without some level of external validation. It’s way late on this blog, but I wanted to say this sounds very true. Taking pleasure in other people being stupid is probably best labeled as some other dysfunction. In other words, no matter how confident you feel about driving 80mpg on a crowded freeway, your car can only stop so fast. I don’t mean that as a social phenomenon, as if everyone agreeing with you the world is flat makes your idea any more true.Īrrogance is not primarily about an attitude, but instead about your confidence being out of step with reality. For example, Galileo is confident about his conclusions because he does experiments informed by reality. By that I mean, that confidence comes from living consistent with reality. Glad you’re drawing the distinction, but I think there’s a more useful way to look at it.Ĭonfidence actually properly comes from the outside in. Someone who actively enjoys putting others down I would define as a jerk :) Reply Confidence, in my mind, implies enough separation from ego that one can learn and self-improve while doing great things. I would define an arrogant person as one who is so convinced of their superiority that it blinds them to outside ideas and alternate viewpoints. This is my experience of becoming and being arrogant, such a painful place and space to not grow up in !! I fit this and was recently called arrogant. Or if somebody’s doing wrong or have ill and tent towards other people I will say something about it. I’m a person that will keep my mouth shut if I’m in question upon something but I’ve I am not and I’m very thorough through whatever it may be I will say something about it. I strongly feel so many people get the definitions of arrogance and confidence mixed up. They don’t have to compensate for their inadequacies the way the arrogant person does. They know where they stand and are comfortable in that place, even when they aren’t the smartest or best in the room.

However, I think a confident person comes from a place of security. The opportunity to make someone else feel uncomfortable shifts the attention away from themselves and their sense of inadequacy. They don’t like how they feel about themselves, so they put on airs of superiority to compensate. I’m going to guess that an arrogant person comes from a place of shame. Arrogance tends to work against, while confidence more easily works with. Confidence is held inwardly and can soldier on regardless of external opinions, positive, negative or neutral. ReplyĪrrogance is about external appearances, hence the “I’m right, you’re wrong” attitude. I always think of it as arrogance is thinking you’re better than people, confidence is thinking you’re equal to people. I think you have the true definitions of the two reversed to be honest. This is my two cents on the matter which is based on my life experiences. While Arrogance needs experience to gain balance. However, confidence can lead to misjudgement, especially in repetitive tasks placed in a somewhat different circumstance than it usually is.Ĭonfidence would need humility to balance it’s self assuredness. If one is so sure of ones skill level he will most likely succeed as smoothely as possible almost all the time. In short, inexperienced, self motivating.Ĭonfidence is through experience and study. And you can certainly use both.Īrrogance will help you push yourself beyond your limits, but if viewed by others would seem so farfetched and “illogical” that you’d be almost certainly be deemed as annoying hence the confidence you’re trying to build up is deemed arrogant. Both confidence and arrogance has a positive and a negative. The problem here is that people think of it as positive(confidence) and negative(arrogance).

The arrogant person says: “You’ve made a mistake.” The confident person says: “I’ve made that mistake too.” Reply I do think that confident people ought to have the ability to spot errors, but should do so with a sense of humility. Walter Bond likes to say “confidence is arrogance under control.” Your approach notes that confidence is about knowledge of superior ability, whereas arrogance is putting others down. This is a great way of thinking about arrogance and confidence. Who died and made YOU the king of definitions? :)

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