These are qualities necessary for anyone to believe honestly that one can be or become the best in the world in any area or any endeavour. It is not simply considering one superior to others, it is a belief that we need not be or feel inferior to anyone else, if we put in honest effort.
It does not mean one has to be aggressive or loud or bombastic in exhibiting these positive qualities. They can be done while still being mostly quiet, calm and soft spoken. That is how most right thinking people display their self-respect and self-confidence. On rare occassions where the situation demands it, they can be assertive, speak up and even shout, but not as a matter of routine. Being over-confident, arrogant, brash and loud-mouthed in trying to appear self-confident and show self-respect is actually an indication of the lack of these qualities. Often failure to build up the self on a real basis results in an ego inflated with hot air.
Most Westerners have it right. Some Easterners also have it. They consider it extremely important and teach it to their children and they do. It involves sticking up for each other, boosting each other up even when we fail and building people up based on something real and solid. IMO, there is a higher percentage of Westerners who have this right than Easterners. That is why a smaller number of them are able to dominate and control the world. It is one marked and significant difference I observe between the two kinds of societies - Western and Eastern. There are several reasons, cultural and historical for this difference.This is something more Easterners NEED to learn properly, even from the West if need be.
What do you think?
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