(November 25, 2013 at 10:20 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: Does doing something well that you are skilled at give you a boost?
Yes - more or less.
(November 25, 2013 at 10:20 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: Is that boost real, or 'forced' and 'artificial'?
No, it's real.
But if my level of confidence was in so much in need of recognition from other people, especially from a single person, and then trying to get their attention such as by flirting, then the boost is not as real as I would like to think.
It would be more of an illusory boost because it implies that I am willing to assess myself mostly through someone else's mind and less through my own.