Have you ever met someone who was beaming with confidence?

[Baitball Blogger]

[Tobin S.]

1. That guy must have rubber bands for groin muscles.

I'm not sure how the video ties in with your thread title, though.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. You're right. Let me correct the title.

It takes a tremendous amount of confidence for that kind of performance. Not over-confidence. My bad.

[Tobin S.]

3. I wasn't judging you

It just seemed like a disconnect between the thread title and the video to me. But you have cleared it up for me.

I think a person's level of confidence depends a great deal on how they were raised. I suffer from a lack of confidence sometimes, but I'm a lot better about that than I used to be. I realized that I had a way of talking to myself in my mind that always said that I was not good enough and that I didn't have the ability to do a lot of things.

It was kind of like I went on a mission to prove myself wrong. That's how I'm getting over it. I used to not think I was worthy of love and that I'd never even have a girlfriend let alone a life partner. I took up that challenge and now I am married to a woman who loves me deeply. I dropped out of college twice when I was younger. Later in life I took up the challenge to finish my education and prove to myself that I was smart enough to do it. I'm sitting next to my bachelor's degree diploma right now.

I've come to realize over the years that a lot of that negative, destructive self-talk was instilled in my while I was growing up. As a child, I lived with a person who seemed to take delight in tearing me down. I internalized it and believed that crap about myself for a long time. It made me absolutely insane.

I assume that the opposite could happen to a person. That is that when they are young they are taught that they are so awesome that they grow up to have grandiose, delusional self talk about their self worth and have too much confidence. They grow to have an unrealistic idea about their abilities.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I agree that environmental factors may affect confidence levels.

But don't forget that character traits also make a difference. Extroverted people do a better job of brushing off their failures, possibly because they are eager to move on to something new and exciting. They appear to be unafraid of criticism, or maybe they really don't care what people think about them.

Frankly, this may give them a chance for success in life, but I wouldn't want them to be making decisions for me. They are highly motivated, but sometimes lack common sense.

This is all an incredible over-generalization, but I am thinking of specific people. Particularly, an extrovert with a limited skillset that exudes confidence and I'm comparing them to an introverted person I know that has amazing aptitude, but no confidence.

Bottomline, life will eventually wear you down and you'll find yourself saying, "Fuck it," more often.

I think the key is learning to set your own goals and make them realistic for yourself.

Sometimes it's a good idea to retreat from people who make you feel bad about yourself. Sometimes they are extroverts who just talk a good talk.

[Xipe Totec]

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[panader0]

6. My first reaction was--that must hurt your man parts--ouch!