What is the difference between confidence and over confidence?

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Shruthi swarup said:   9 years ago
Confidence is being comfortable in your own skin and expressing yourself without feeling insecure or nervous. It comes when one knows one's strengths as well as faults and accepts them to improve oneself.

Overconfidence is when a person 'believes' that he/she is right every single time and that there's nothing the others 'need' do, but follow him/her happily.

If the interviewer says something like, "If you can do it, there are hundred others who can do it too. Why should we choose you and not them?".

If you say because I can do it better than others, the interviewer might twist your reply to mean that you are over-confident.

What to say in such situations? Maybe you can say "Because I'm special! You will find it during my work and never regret your choice.

Shahith said: A person is confident when he know the fact better, a person is overconfident when he think that he know the facts better than others.
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Vikram said:   9 years ago
Confidence: Base is Hard work.

Over Confidence: Base is imagination/thinking.
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Vijay said:   9 years ago
Hi, this is Vijay.

Confidence:- He/she has the confidence to accept the challenges overcoming by their continuous practices. This will result to the good results.

Overconfidence:- He/she had the good results in last time so they have the idea it is too easy to get the good result this time also without practice. But now it guides them to a failure.
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Ram said:   9 years ago
Confidence:

1. Confidence is of Human.
2. Belief Oneself for work.
3. Experience and knowledge of the work.

Over confidence:

EGO which Means Less efforts & 100% Result.
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Wubshet said:   9 years ago
Confidence is the ability to do and don't things that we have.

Over-confidence is when our work is less than we have or our ability.
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S. M. Touhidur Rahman said:   9 years ago
Confidence, for example, is l can perform the task.

On the other hand over confidence, for instance, is l can perform the task effectively and efficiently instead of anybody.
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Chinna said:   9 years ago
Confidence means any one can ask a question I can answer that question either it is correct or not. If the answering way represents how much we are confident to that situation. Over confidence means if answering that question and the answer is wrong but the person always says it is correct they did not convince with that answer that represents over confidence.
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Viji vijayan said:   8 years ago
Respected sir/ mam.

In my point of view, confidence is based on Facts and Figures but over confidence is based on speculation.

First, we analyse that work, then decided we can do that work this is confidence.

Without analysing that work then decided we can do that work this is overconfidence.

There is a small difference between confidence and overconfidence. Confidence means I can do that. Over confidence means Only I can do that.

This small difference leads to change one's life totally. In life we put confidence towards you, then you can achieve anything, with over confidence one can achieve nothing.
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Mohini Shingare said:   8 years ago
Confidence means: Our hard work with us. And no one can change this that's an internal feeling. I am right for this opportunity I can do this. Everyone can do this. But. I am fue well from other that is confidence.

No one can do this without my help. And for that. I am the best, that is not internal that's a feel the yourself very intelligent and other are, nothing. that's overconfidence.
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Sandeep Damar said:   8 years ago
Well, according to me in short confidence means "I can do this work' and overconfidence means "ONLY I can do this work' and also confidence more than required is harmful and that's called overconfidence. That's the difference.
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