True confidence is to be able to walk into a room and find the biggest badest straight guy in the room, walk up to him and give him a great big kiss on the lips, and survive.
If what others say doesn't matter, how is one to correct one's errors? Neither "unshakeable" nor "bullheaded" are a part of confidence.
well, within reasonable limits. they matter, but they do not shake the belief you have in yourself. of course it matters what others think.
Yes I agree, better worded but YES! and MikeE, I disagree when you say: If what others say doesn't matter, how is one to correct one's errors? Neither "unshakeable" nor "bullheaded" are a part of confidence.
What part don't you agree with? The implication that criticism from others is important feedback and a check on one's own misbehavior? or That a confident person includes the possibility of being wrong. That confidence requires that one be open to the possibility of being shaken from a (mistaken) position in order to take a correct position? or something else?
Exemplified by those guys that climb buildings and rock faces with NOTHING BUT HANDS AND FEET. That to me is the absolute in true confidence. I have to turn them off when I see them doing it.
True confidense is knowing yourself and knowing that you are who you want to be. You don't have to put on a mask for people, just be...
True confidence is that which we can`t talk ourselves into having. Alternate answer: being born to fuck. alternate answer 2: being able to stick it out on your own; and giving the chick a hall pass when in a relationship.