3.5 readers, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but our 45th POTUS has a rather high opinion of himself. Love him or hate him, that self-confidence has helped him win.
Perhaps it is easy for him to be that uber confident. He was born into great wealth and used it to make more…something most of us will never be able to do.
Then again, if he’d been born poor and only became say, a lowly insurance salesman, something tells me he’d be able to sell tons of insurance policies and make bank for himself.
So I don’t know. People tell me I should try to be confident but I feel like I don’t have much to back it up.
Do you think, for example, if a man who, to riff on Chris Farley, lived in a van down by the river, were to walk into a bar and speak confidently and highly of himself…do you think he’d be able to convince a hot babe to join him in his van down by the river?
Or, would he need something to back his confidence up? Perhaps if he had a mansion he could invite the hot babe to, then he’d have no problem.
Perhaps the greatest part of confidence is knowing that if the opportunity you’re chasing doesn’t work out, another will be around in 5 minutes.
Thus, if you haven’t gotten it on in years, you’re going to seem desperate to that hot babe at the bar. But if you get it regular, then you’ll have like a “Hey baby, take it or leave it” attitude that ironically, may very well intrigue said hot babe.
Personally, I think confidence isn’t a bluff but rather is a state of being obtained by being able to back up what you say and do. I don’t think Trump would say half the things he does if he didn’t know that he had mad cash to hire lawyers to protect him from lawsuits and if his business is adversely affected then he still has plenty of dough. Meanwhile, if you’re the manager of a shoe store like Al Bundy, you’re probably going to keep quiet as you need the last 5 bucks in your wallet for a pizza.
That’s my two cents. Discuss.
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