Are You Confident?

When I meet someone confident, my first instinct is to think, wow, like, you must be really great. And even after years of experiences of this not being very well correlated with competence and practice, I still instinctively have that moment. One thing I found helpful in helping people who are less connaturally confident is saying, okay, reword the statement you're going to make to a wording that you're extremely confident in. That can actually come across as also very impressive and confident.