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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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