confidence and arrogance

The debate between Confidence and Arrogance has been long a lasting topic. The aspect that differentiates confidence with arrogance is the word ‘OVER’, arrogance is over-confidence. If a person is over-confident, it reflects arrogant character.

Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!, a woman managing colossal social networking site as huge as ‘Yahoo!’ is not a laughing matter. Some people can’t handle pressure while working in a small firm whereas Marissa Mayer is an inspiration for all the ladies around the globe.

Kanye West, one of the big personalities in the music industry can be categorized as arrogant because he demands that he be rewarded for all of his work and gets upset when he's not invited to functions or loses an award to someone else. He performs, we can say he’s talented but the way he acts on his loss in any musical awards is not overwhelming, which in other words is ‘Arrogance’. Persona such as him should motivate other uprising musicians, but his cocky character could destroy him in near future.

Both, Confident and Arrogant person have their goals to reach. The only difference between them is the way they reach their goals. Most commonly, confident ones are the respected ones and arrogant are the feared ones.

Taking an example in a firm, an arrogant boss who always ignores others opinions and always follows his/her own method is mostly feared rather than respected by his employees. However, a confident boss, who still admires others ideas even though he/she doesn’t agree with it is mostly respected. The ones who are confident show with their works whereas the arrogant ones show-off only with their words.

In the case of arrogance, the level of competency is pretty much high because the arrogant person has the mentality of winning the competition by hook or by crook, which can cause feud amongst competent. The mental torture while competing in the context can cause various problems to the health itself. Whereas, self-reliant are the ones who keep calm and composure which makes them the winner at the end of the day.