The Confidence Conversation We Need to Have with Scott Galloway

I had some f<unk>ed up sense of masculinity when I was younger where I never showed my emotions, didn't cry between the ages of 29 and 44, didn't laugh out loud. Now I purposely try to train myself into laughing out loud. Because 50% of having a good sense of humor is appreciating other people's cleverness. I think learning to laugh, that's an expression of something you're feeling on the inside, I would argue, is vulnerability. I think when you're a younger man, sometimes you have this belief that recognizing someone else as funny, acknowledging someone else's success somehow takes away from your success.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That it's a zero-sum game. And what you realize as you get older is the guy who says to another guy, Wow, you're so impressive. Or laughs at his joke and says, wow, that was really funny.

That's confidence. Yes, you're describing confidence. It's 100%. That's all it is. Most of us have at least one friend who's got a total opposite personality to us.

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