It is usually best to be socially confident while making well-calibrated predictions of success. The two are only slightly related and Downey is definitely talking about the social kind of confidence.
Good point. I’m still not sure I like his framing of social interactions as getting people on “your” team (which I may be partly biased in by the source of the quote), but the objection in my initial post isn’t a good one.
I think it’s good to be well-calibrated.
It is usually best to be socially confident while making well-calibrated predictions of success. The two are only slightly related and Downey is definitely talking about the social kind of confidence.
Good point. I’m still not sure I like his framing of social interactions as getting people on “your” team (which I may be partly biased in by the source of the quote), but the objection in my initial post isn’t a good one.
I think it’s best to be well-calibrated, use that to choose your team as one that’s going to succeed, and then to be confident.