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rainacorn

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lol @ the title

Anyway, I've read so many articles on this recently, I thought I would share. Apparently there is an epidemic of overconfidence among today's young adults (and teens). I personally like to blame parents for this, since I see how they refuse to discipline their kids and let them just run wild. This article, however, brought up the school aspect, which I hadn't really thought about before.

Humility is such an essential part of a right relationship with God. Is our school system just making it more difficult to know Him on His terms?

Are College Freshman Overconfident? - Jim Liebelt Christian Blog

Among academics who track the behavior of young adults and teens, there's a touchy debate: Should the word 'entitled' be used when talking about today's younger people? Are they overconfident in themselves? San Diego State University psychology professor Jean Twenge says new research proves that's the case. Her study, published online and in the British journal Self and Identity, investigates why college-aged kids may be more self-centred and narcissistic than past generations.

Among other things, Ms Twenge and her colleagues found that a growing percentage of incoming college freshmen rated themselves as 'above average' in several categories, compared with college freshmen who were surveyed in the 1960s. When it came to social self-confidence, about half of freshmen questioned in 2009 said they were above average, compared to fewer than a third in 1966. Meanwhile, 60 percent in 2009 rated their intellectual self-confidence as above average, compared with 39 percent in 1966, the first year the survey was given.


In the study, the authors also argue that intellectual confidence may have been bolstered by grade inflation, noting that, in 1966, only 19 per cent of college students who were surveyed earned an 'A' or 'A-minus' average in high school, compared with 48 percent in 2009. Ms Twenge said: "Students might be more likely to think they're superior because they've been given better grades."


Many bosses and others in the workplace have long argued that recent college students often arrive with unreasonably high expectations for salary and an unwillingness to take criticism or to pay their dues.

Janelle Mills, who'll be a junior this fall at Stetson University in Florida, says she and her peers get tired of their elders 'ragging' on them about being entitled or lazy - or just labelling them in general. But she also thinks there's something to this study about over-confidence. "Kids are being encouraged to be the best that they can be. I think that this can create a superiority complex for those who begin to think that their best is better than everyone else's," she said. "Modesty and humility are no longer common and are becoming harder to find."
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I'm not trying to make any accusations or anything. I've just read a lot of articles like this recently and I'm curious how people in that age group view this issue?
 
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Cabbage

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I am a college freshman.I think there are some children that are told all of their lives that they are the best and of course there are some spoiled people, but you have to look at it back then, too. In the past, it wasn't necessarily what the parents told the children, it was based on wealth. So, even then, you had some spoiled over-confident children. Going back to modern days, the academic levels are different. Yes, there may be an increase in earning an "A," but back then, it wasn't very important. The people back then were smarter as far as taking care of the fields and learning the farms. Now, the kids are smarter as far as the math, science, English, and history portions of life. I think there are some children who are over-confident, but you have to look back at where the children are coming from. If you have been told all of your life that you were the "best on the field," or "the best student ever," then you would begin to believe it. I don't believe it is all of the child's fault. I think it has to do mostly with their upbringing and what they have been told. Also, if they were coming from a high school, they might have been the best student. Before you call yourself the best, you should get in college and see what your competition is.
 
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rainacorn

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You make it sound like the 1960s were 200 years ago
 
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Confidence and humility aren't mutually exclusive in my opinion.
 
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i can say...nobody is humble....no one...a man always want things for His own....that is the call of the flesh...There's no other way to beat the flesh, by killing it through strengthening your spiritual man...pride is with the carnal, while humility (acknowledging how little we are compared to our Big God)is the spiritual.....SELF Control...Striving to become more humble, just like paul....pressing on to Christlikeness....until this carnal man disappears the moment we are change,,,with just one blink of an eye...EVERYDAY is a battle, thanks to Jesus, that He died for our victory 2000 years ago...He is worthy...
 
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See_KING_Truth

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A much better word, in my opinion, in place of 'overconfidence' is 'arrogance'
 
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Cabbage

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I am sorry that I made the 60's out as 200 years ago. I have grown up with adults and that is just how we talk around here. I did not mean anything by it. I guess I was the one referred to as the obnoxious brat and I truly am sorry for the way my generation turned out. I am sorry we have disappointed America and I apologize if I came off as sounding like an obnoxious brat.
 
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Forlorn-Hope

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It wasn't directed it at you xD And its not this generations fault, it's human nature. We have finally become unsustainable as a species. Soon we will die and the world can begin the slow long hard road to recovery.
 
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Cabbage

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Yeah, I agree. Satan is playing on the Earth more than ever. God tells us that the world will fall apart before things get better and we are watching the world fall apart before our eyes.
 
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1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

(2 Timothy 3:1-5 NIV)
 
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Cabbage

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Yep, that is what is happening, but I am a Christian and in the end WE WIN!! HALLELUJAH!
 
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Cabbage

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What am I wrong about? We are told in the Bible that we are promised eternal life through Christ.
 
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Cabbage

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The Bible says that if you believe in Jesus Christ and you accept Him as your Lord and Savior you will be saved. It is true!
 
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Forlorn-Hope

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Yes, According to you and 1.8 Billion others. I'm just saying that there is no certainty in life. With anything.
 
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