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“Weak people confuse arrogance for confidence.”

When I hear weak people in this quote, I don’t think of those that are physically weak. Therefore, confidence also doesn’t come from physical strength. However, if you build your physical strength, you can gain some confidence.

People that are weak emotionally, mentally, or within their own maturity, will always see confidence in others as arrogance.

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Emotional weakness comes in the form of not being willing to understand others. Those that are emotionally weak, choose to be selfish. They are not good at regulating their emotions nor are they good at understanding the emotions of others.

As an artist, you must be emotionally strong. You need to be able to connect to other people and their emotions to create something that they themselves can connect to. An artist that is not emotionally strong cannot truly create authentic art.

Mental weakness comes from a lack of struggle and understanding struggle. If you don’t understand struggle and have not been through struggle, then you will not have the mental fortitude to work through a variety of challenges. Mental strength isn’t just intelligence. Mental strength is understanding not to give up on a problem.

As an artist, you must be mentally strong. You will have moments where you have to fight through criticism from others as well as criticism from yourself. Being mentally strong also means you’re mentally flexible; you’re open to more than those that are not mentally strong. Open-mindedness is a strength.

People that are not mature, cannot fully embrace those things that are around them and of course, don’t have the emotional or mental capacity to embrace all that that’s around them.

As an artist, maturity is important. But that doesn’t mean that you lose the creativity of a child. The imagination that is necessary to be an artist is also so important and it comes from the immaturity that children may have. But don’t misconstrued that immaturity of children with the immaturity that an adult can have.

Arrogance is a mixture of insecurity, low emotional intelligence, and mental weakness, all combined with adult immaturity.

Confidence, however, is a combination of knowing one’s self, emotional intelligence, mental fortitude, and maturity.

Arrogance is loud.

Confidence let’s others speak for it.

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