Comments on: The Line Between Confidence & Arrogance

By: Compro7

Compro7 — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:30:00 +0000

who knew?

By: Neefee

Neefee — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:48:00 +0000

Sorry Karen, I was not replying to you

By: Neefee

Neefee — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:46:00 +0000

this article is right on. I am a very confidante person. I was not always this way. A lot of people around me are not confidant. I give them tips and teach them the things I did to become the person I am now. Some people get it and some don’t. A lot of my confidence came with age and it feels GREAT!!!!!

By: jabon

jabon — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:00 +0000

I would also like to add that, if your look back in history the most famous crimminauls where social paths and most social paths tend to be very arrongant.

By: jabon

jabon — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:57:00 +0000

I believe that most people who are arrongant are also ensucure with them selves and that’s why they feel the need to compete with some one who they may feel is a threat to them. these people also feel that they should be the center of attention and no one else should be looked at but them and they do not know how to handle rejection

By: Steve Errey - Confidence Guy

Steve Errey - Confidence Guy — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:44:00 +0000

I hate how many people are affected by the past behaviour of others, and sorry to hear you’re having a tough time.

I don’t know you and I don’t your fiance, so it could be arrogance, it could be confidence or it could just be ignorance. Often, particularly with guys, they do something or say something without really thinking it through. They just throw out a flippant comment or a quick put down and think nothing of it – they don’t intend it to hurt, it’s just a thing they do.

There are ways to change it, and you might wanna get hold of my ebook “Staying Up When You’re Put Down”, which has a heap of strategies for dealing with this:

http://theconfidenceguyonline.com/stayingup-when-youre-put-down/

Let me know how you get on.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:52:00 +0000

Hi Steve. I myself have very little confidence. The reason is poor self esteem and due to past treatment by others. How can I fix this? … On the otherhand my fiancé comes across being very arrogant at times. He says he just a confident person. I know better. It’s definitely arrogance. Any thoughts on how to get him to stop when he acts this way or what advice I could give him?

Thank you,
Robin

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:32:01 +0000

Steve, thank you for the clarification between arrogant and self-confident. I realize now that I avoid self-confidence because I have confused that with arrogance. As a W.A.S.P., I am exist in a world where arrogance is called confidence and respected but I have always loathed the traits of the arrogant person. However, I constantly see arrogant people being rewarded for their arrogance because far too many other people are not self-confident enough to withstand the arrogance. With this new knowledge about the differences between arrogance and self-confidence, I feel a release to be self-confident without being arrogant.

By: Tee

Tee — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:45:55 +0000

Wow, this has been enlightening I’d say I was a confident person even too confident at times, but I see alot of myself above so what I see as confidence is really arrogance and I would never have said that I was.
Time to do something about it. Thanks Steve.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:53:19 +0000

@Karen: I’m know nothing about ADD and it’s certainly not my place to judge. That said, these points are based on what I’ve observed and how I’ve seen many people behave. Compassion doesn’t come into it.

@Bob: Welcome aboard Bob!