Excessive self-confidence

I want to talk about a silent epidemic that is growing not just in this country, but worldwide: rampant excessive self-confidence.

In our feelgood age we spend a lot of time talking about the low esteem of those less fortunate. It’s important people reduce anxiety with optimal self-worth.

What doesn’t get mentioned is the difficulty of people with excessive self-confidence – which is to say an overblown sense of their own capacities, their value to society, and entitlement.

There are active campaigns to boost self-esteem, but why the strange taboo about making sure these zealously self-confident assholes receive extra doses of humility?

I’d defend everyone’s right to be a unique asshole if it didn’t affect others. The brazenly excessively self-confident take a lot of well-meaning folk with them when their incompetence is exposed, or worse, continues to remain taboo and unmentionable even when the evidence is stacked against them.

Kindly help keep a colleague humble today. You’ll be doing your bit to make the world a better place.

W

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