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@Oliver Schick
There's a big difference between confidence and assertiveness. A lot of people who are very assertive have very little confidence, and vice versa. Assertiveness is projected to the outside, whereas confidence is inside and comes from factors such as your 'basic/original trust' ("Urvertrauen"(link in German, sorry, can't find a good reference in English right now)). Ideally, both are in balance, but in many people they are not. In my experience, people who went to 'posh' schools tend to have more assertiveness than confidence.