How does being a confident man feel?

Project_Zero_Betas · 2019-05-20T00:19:29+00:00

How does being a confident man feel?

Glorious. Absolute.

I portray an arrogant confidence, where i can sometimes fool the other person into believing i am confident by being full of myself, and it works sometimes. At the end of the day though i still dont believe it myself.

Do you have any notable successes on which to project said confidence? A lot easier when you have laurels to back up your arrogance.

Aspentusk · 2019-05-20T05:22:17+00:00

It feels the same only you realize there's no special feeling of being a confident man. Every person you meet has no fucking idea what they're doing or what you should be doing. Once you internalize that realization you can do whatever ever you want because nobody will question it. They wouldn't before either only you thought there was a way you SHOULD be that was different from how you WANT to be.

Best_coder_NA · 2019-05-20T10:24:23+00:00

You need to be proud of something in your life

Dane50 · 2019-05-20T01:23:28+00:00

Lift. Take up a martial art form. Save money.

cbdxm · 2019-05-20T12:01:20+00:00

If I handed you an apple and asked you to eat it, what do you do? You just bite it. No second thoughts, no pussy footing around, or second guessing yourself. You just eat it. You're confident that you can eat it to the point where you don't even think about it. You'll think about whether you want to eat it or not, or maybe how you want to eat it, but you won't think about whether you can eat it or not. That part doesn't register.

Applying that to just about anything is the essence of confidence; being adept at something to the point where you don't even think about it, and knowing you can do something if you wanted to do it.

Self esteem is a slightly different matter. It doesn't completely stem from being confident, but it correlates with it. I suppose it comes more from the journey taken towards being confident and reflecting on those struggles and how far you've come.

Either way, true confidence stems from knowing what you are capable of, and liking yourself. The rush of achieving new things should feel great and rewarding, but confidence itself shouldn't really feel like anything. Its the status quo. You should strive to feel unconfident because that means you're pushing on your own boundaries (as long as you actually are actively trying to improve).

ReaperX44 · 2019-05-20T15:17:41+00:00

Have you ever stepped in a building and felt like you own the place? Like that.

Title	How does being a confident man feel?
Author	NexusReflexX
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Date	May 20, 2019 12:15 AM UTC (7 years ago)
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