Confidence vs arrogance (micro blog)

Being confident is important. Though it is not easy. You got to be really good at what you do to be confident. But once you get to that point. You have keep yourself away from arrogance.

Arrogance is what you fall into if you don’t know how to handle confidence. Managing confidence is a different skill altogether. It requires you to speak to everyone as if you are nothing. You just another human who is average.

You need to talk to people in way that doesn’t come across as arrogant. I’ll give you an example to understand this better, so take the Paytm CEO for example. His company is doing great, everything is beautiful. This makes him confident but not arrogant.

Arrogance is when you get high on your confidence. This man can dance in front of you, even though he doesn’t know how to dance. His confidence doesn’t stop him from dancing. While if he was arrogant, he would have thought that I’m the CEO of a multi billion dollar company. I should be all suited booted. But no, he’s not that person, he can dance with you. That’s being humble and down to earth.

But this is difficult to accomplish. After a level of success, one tends to get a bit arrogant. To achieve this you need to constantly remind yourself that the world would end one day. None of what you accomplished will stay.

The password for being confident but not arrogant is:

1 life. Live it. Don’t get high on it.

Because if you fall it will hurt real bad.

-ChoubeySahab