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Re:Telling your inner critic to chill by ericmcer on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:04AM (#34441774)
This viewpoint implies that everyone successful achieves it through merit. I think a ton of people achieve success just through insane confidence.

Look at something like Scientology. It is just one insanely confident man willing an entire religion into existence and holding it all together with his own over-confidence. I hate cults but they are an example of how delusion levels of self-confidence can bring things into existence that make no logical sense.

Re:Telling your inner critic to chill by agentwiggles on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:10AM (#34441859)
Look at Trump, or DJ Khaled, for a similar (and, for me, rather annoying) lesson.
Re:Telling your inner critic to chill by stcroixx on Thursday January 19, 2023 @03:03PM (#34444898)
Lacking the merit, I'd consider this to be arrogance rather than confidence. One is based in reality, one is just wishful thinking. Granted, most people can't tell the difference looking at someone whose background they are not familiar with.