False Confidence

I went to a car dealership yesterday to shop for a new Toyota.  I felt embarrassed how little I knew about cars, and also was wary of how vulnerable such a position made me to being taken advantage of, and so I wore an attitude of false confidence.

I realize now that although the down side of false confidence is getting results from the world that are not congruent with who you actually are, therefore you get information from the world that doesn't fit who you are truly, what you know and don't know, etc....

I realize that I'm actually really good at expressing false confidence.  I think I use it fairly often as a social tool... or Weapon.....maybe.

Kvothe from "Name of the Wind" comes to mind.