True confidence isn't about being smooth. It's about owning your awkwardness and asking directly for what you want, like saying "Can I kiss you?" instead of assuming. People who skip the ask are driven by ego and fear of rejection, not confidence.
Why don't people just ask, can I kiss you, instead of going for it? You don't want to make it awkward and ruin the moment. Now, why is that funny? Because that means you actually think you're smooth. By the way, can you be making out with someone and can it turn awkward in a second? Is that possible? Yes or no? Yes. Yes, it is. So let me give you a little secret. You're not afraid of being awkward. You're really good at it. You want confidence? Here's confidence. There's 2 profiles of confidence in this world. Profile number 1, the person who's awkward, knows it, owns it. Confidence. Then there's profile number 2 of confidence. They walk around confident. They They're not confident. And they are confident. Here's the interesting part. Both these people always ask. You know why? They don't fear the answer. They're not caught up in their ego and their reputation. They both believe in doing the right thing because it's who they— Are. The person in the middle who doesn't ask, that's arrogance because their ego's too afraid of the answer. So if you're confident, you're willing to be awkward.
