Ask HN: How do you deal with overly confident people?

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with overly confident people? by jcroll on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @11:43AM (#9726590)

Well if you always end up being right are you not becoming more confident in your assertions?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with overly confident people? by arsenide on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @11:52AM (#9726663)

The distinction lies in the difference between being confident and acting confident.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with overly confident people? by jcroll on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @11:53AM (#9726679)

You can act confident without being confident but if you are confident you will be confident.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with overly confident people? by arsenide on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @12:36PM (#9727038)

Hm? Though I am confident about a choice few of my political beliefs I don't often act as such, and experience tells me it is also not received that way.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with overly confident people? by bhsiao on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @11:45AM (#9726606)

I don't think that's it. He says he tends to arrive at right answers after long and careful thought while people around him jump into conclusions and force them forward.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with overly confident people? by jcroll on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @11:52AM (#9726665)

There's no magic bullet for confidence. You can try faking it till you make it. Ultimately good work will lead to confidence. If a bunch of boisterous sales guys were constantly "alphaing" me with erroneous solutions and I knew with some thought I could come up with something better I know I would start to gain confidence through that process.

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