ARROGANCE AND CONFIDENCE

Arrogance and confidence are similar terms with different meanings. Arrogance and confidence both involve believing in one’s abilities.  Arrogance is defined as an offensive display of superiority, self-importance and over bearing pride whereas confidence is termed as a feeling or consciousness of one’s power or of reliance on one’s circumstances. People with arrogance can also be said to be over confident but a person with confidence doesn’t necessarily be an arrogant.

Arrogance refers to believing something or someone is capable or correct when they are not. Arrogance is often underplayed by insecurity. People with arrogance tend to be arrogant to compensate their area of weakness that distresses them. Such people only play up their area of strength and prefer ignoring their area of weakness because of the inability to come to terms with weakness. An arrogant person finds himself smart if someone else feels stupid. Their sense of themselves depends on thinking less of others.

Confidence refers to a state of mind marked by easy coolness, freedom from uncertainty or embarrassment. A confident person feels competent from within, they use their talent to succeed on any task at hand and accept their weakness, faults even though they might not like them. They might look for external validation but they won’t totally rely upon it to define the sense of their abilities. Unlike arrogant people, confident people are easy to approach as they adopt an open and easy posture.

Each and every individual should build up confidence as it will lead them to success in life and ignore arrogance for arrogance is sure to mislead you in a wrong path diverting from your actual goal.