Holding a royal flush is being confident. Going all in is acting confident.
Holding a royal flush is being lucky. It may result in you having a *feeling* of confidence, but that's not the same thing. And it can have no impact on confidence-in-the-sense-of-personality-trait. Eurch, so much imprecise language affecting this topic: 'confidence' means too many different things.
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Date: 2007-06-14 03:28 pm (UTC)Holding a royal flush is being confident. Going all in is acting confident.
Holding a royal flush is being lucky. It may result in you having a *feeling* of confidence, but that's not the same thing. And it can have no impact on confidence-in-the-sense-of-personality-trait. Eurch, so much imprecise language affecting this topic: 'confidence' means too many different things.