We need to challenge unnecessary barriers for those who don't fit the standard mould of the self-confident, self-promoting type: We can see from this debate some of the reasons why women lack self confidence and how this manifests itself in their behaviour at work.
"I envy the self-confident," he wrote.
Rebellious young women apparently identified with the self-confident and boyish-looking winner, Li Yuchun.
Gone are the self-confident claims about the superiority of Asian values.
Still, the self-confident fatuity and condescension of the movie is offensive.
The self-confident seducer Usher alongside the "self-conscious" rapper Mr. West.
India's home minister, Shivraj Patil, has already resigned, giving way to Palaniappan Chidambaram, the self-confident and technocratic finance minister.
After all, no one in philosophy is really entitled to the self-confident feeling that they have got it right.
But a century later, thanks to the self-confident elitism of the fine arts, that split still exists.
If the Times becomes too dispirited and defensive, it could lose the self-confident swagger it needs to mount investigations or, when necessary, to challenge powerful interests.
