I recently mentioned how I went through some of my old posts and saw that the tone of some of my posts came across as arrogance (which was definitely not what I was going for in posting).
Which brings me to the question: What separates arrogance from playful cockiness?
Some of the things I said that were off putting were along the lines of, “Of course I succeeded – why wouldn’t I?” or “… and then I did this to her and then I did this to her…” Things like that. Now, I’m exagerating it a bit for the purpose of this discussion, but some of it really did sound that obnoxious and I was totally unaware how it came across as I was writing it.
What made it arrogant was that I was kind of implying that I am flawless and that everything comes easy to me. I think that playful cockiness is about expectations, whereas arrogance is about beliefs about one’s self. Arrogance has a feeling of “I am better than you” whereas cockiness has a feeling of “I expect great things and I’m not ashamed to say it.”
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