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Confidence vs Pride: Response Required

Monday, April 14th, 2008

To all readers.  All two of you.  I need to hear your answer (or at least discussion) on this question:  When does confidence cross the line into pride?

Let’s pose some hypotheticals (and yes, I know I just turned an adjective into a noun).

In your job, you’re pretty sure you know what you are talking about most of the time.  You even consider yourself a bit of an expert.  Knowing that sometimes you can still be wrong, how confidently can you express your opinion as fact before you really are acting, or at least come across as arrogant?  Does it matter that some would see you as arrogant?

Or say you feel like pod-casting is something that you should be doing.  You know that you are not incredibly eloquent or as creative as some out there.  You sometimes use words or clichés completely out of context.  You have some ideas, but not sure they are worth sharing.  Should you just take the plunge and throw caution to the wind and do it, not caring what others think, in the hope that you have some chance of achieving what you set out to do?

Now don’t even think of going anywhere before answering this question…

               …  Oops! - was that too proud?

 

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