Which also is why many 'Proud People' are poor listeners because it is hard to hear very much else aside from the sound of their own selves convincing themselves of their superior existence.
When I look at photographs of my 22-year-old self, so convinced of her own defectiveness, I see a perfectly normal girl and I think about aliens.
Rodríguez's self-assurance convinced the Mets that he would be a good fit in New York, that the pressures of playing here would not bother him.
But the book's positive reception - it won the Canadian Authors Association award for fiction - and her growing self-confidence convinced her to continue, and two more novels followed over the next six years.
But the novel's positive reception - it won the Canadian Authors Association Award for fiction - and her growing sense of self-confidence convinced her to continue writing novels, and two more followed over the next six years.
But the US philosopher Alfred Mele identified a phenomenon he calls "twisted self-deception": when the self-deceiver convinces himself of the truth of precisely what he does not want to believe.
All we have is our own self-delusion (your ten-year-old self may've convinced your mom you're as good as MJ, but let's be honest: you sucked).
Like many of that age, my junior high self was completely convinced that a guitar was an instant ticket to Awesomeville.
It can make your heart feel as if it is racing, and you may succumb to "negative self-talk", convincing yourself you are going to fail, vomit or freak out.
Just as surely, that fellow feeling will fade over time, as the city of hype and flash rebuilds its self-confidence, convinces itself once more that it needs nothing from the outside save capital, assures itself that its cloud of hot air keeps Manhattan gloriously afloat.
There are bravura descriptions of landscapes and cities, shrewd dissections of human motivations and self-deceptions, convincing and sometimes very witty dialogue spoken by characters from wildly different backgrounds.
