Confidence VS Arrogance

 Being who you are is confidence that is always loved and accepted. On the other hand if you’re trying to show how good you are, that’s vanity and a perfect ingredient for a disaster. Confidence can be mistaken for arrogance and vice-versa. Confidence can be defined as faith or belief that one will act in a right, proper, or effective way in contrast arrogance is having a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.

Who is more successful, a confident leader or an arrogant leader? I would opt for a confident leader over an arrogant leader. Confidence allows one to look through a different perspective, rather than looking through just his eyes and that’s the most important trait a leader should have. Confident leader is always flexible and can adapt to changes easily unlike the arrogant ones, that’s what makes someone successful and a happy person. For instance a confident leader would say “I am a good speaker” whereas an arrogant leader would say “nobody is a good orator than me.” A self centered personality is less likely to be followed. Arrogance and ignorance always sits close together. Such leaders cannot really know a lot, as there is so little room in their mind for ideas.

Being confident is always praised and pleased, however being over confident leads to arrogance, it’s a false perception of oneself. For example, talking about something you know without any doubt as well as accepting your mistakes and faults would be confidence but talking as if you know everything about it would be over confident and boasting about what you know which is again an arrogant behavior  Therefore one should carefully look upon their acts since it can be perceived as being confident or being arrogant due to a slight change in your action. Your words and actions reflect your thoughts.

Hence, confidence is when you know that you can shoulder all the problems of the world and arrogance is when you think you are too good enough for the world with so many problems. Clearly, confidence and arrogance are on opposite ends of a character former one emerging as a blessing and the latter one as a weakness.