Impudent. Arrogance and lack of self-confidence What does an arrogant person mean?

Once upon a time it was right to remain modest - many remember Soviet films that taught modesty and obedience in children. But of course, nothing stands still. Times change, morals change. To defend your opinion, to be unbending in your rules is one thing. But being arrogant is completely different. And although everyone has a clear idea of ​​what arrogance is, defining this concept is still not easy.

We have all encountered, more than once, when people violate established norms of behavior, trying to get something for their own benefit. For example, they skip the queue when others have stood in it for a decent amount of time, and take away certain benefits from others on the basis of the rights of the stronger. So it turns out: arrogance solves problems, allows you to get what you want in a simpler way.

Signs of impudence:

• Disregard for public opinion and established norms, if this interferes.
• An insolent person can take what does not belong to him without a shadow of embarrassment.
• An arrogant person considers his interests more important than yours; he will not wait, give way to ladies, cooze with children, or pay tribute to age. He needs to receive - that means he will receive, despite the fact that the interests of others will suffer.
• Even if someone begins to be indignant, he will not change his tactics: he will remain silent or begin to answer rudely. But he will not give up his actions.
• No shame. He doesn't care what you think.
• Presentation of unreasonable demands, excessive persistence. They also say “takes it unceremoniously.”
• An insolent person interferes in other people's affairs, and can even impose his point of view.
• Insolence, attempts by rudeness to repel the desire to interfere with him.

It turns out that arrogance is the second happiness?

Looking at such “daredevils,” many also want to be “more daring”: this way, some goals are achieved easier, faster, and with fewer losses. But is it worth it?

Agree that arrogance is a rather ambiguous quality: it can provide a great service to the “user” and at the same time wildly irritate “observers”. The impudence of the impudence is different! It can be a consciously chosen position in life or a self-defense reflex, a momentary desire to show off or an innate way of thinking. So, let's try to figure out what's what.

Impudence has many synonyms that differ not so much in meaning as in emotional coloring: impudence, impudence, shamelessness, rudeness, unceremoniousness. Possible manifestations are a raised tone, looking directly at a higher-ranking person, attempts to confuse the interlocutor in some way, the use of lies, cynical and sarcastic statements, a grin, loose behavior, inflated demands, etc. You can’t describe everything!

Useful quality

“Often courage alone is not enough, you also need arrogance” (Stanislav Jerzy Lec). That is, when the emphasis is on confidence in the actions performed, and not on their unceremoniousness, arrogance has a positive connotation and is contrasted with self-doubt. In a word, arrogance can be considered as the ability to touch, catch, and interest people. It can be compared to a hot peppercorn, which turns a bland dish into a delicacy.

We have already forgotten that the word “arrogant” once meant “quick, sudden, unexpected” (this meaning has been preserved in the Ukrainian language). And “bold” means “brave”: hence such wonderful words as “dare”, “dare”, “decide”, “venture” and even “encroach”. And they usually encroach on what most do not even dare to dream about: becoming an absolute leader in their field of activity, occupying the top rung of the corporate ladder, changing the world or achieving cloudless happiness no matter what. A high “bar” and self-confidence is a kind of “arrogance”. So why not?

But it’s important not to overdo it here. Arrogance, of course, is the second happiness... - for those who do not have the first. This is the less popular continuation of the famous phrase. On the one hand, almost everything that an arrogant person does, he does for his own good. To achieve his goals, all means are good for him, and he will definitely go further than an “ordinary” person. But for the same reason, he cannot afford the luxury of friends - so he is most often lonely.

Pick-up artist strategy

Arrogance in the form of excessive persistence is a quality that men actively use when meeting the fair sex. At first, this behavior is usually condemned, but then most ladies begin to find it charming - since close attention is always flattering and shows the special interest of the interlocutor.

It doesn’t matter what the girls say - they can condemningly call their boyfriend “insolent” and whatever else they want, but at the same time they just want to make sure that he really is like that and is not part of the gray mass. That is why many men consider this protest against arrogance only a “test for weaklings” - as they say, “if a woman says no, it means yes, but later.”

According to pick-up artists, arrogance evokes in a girl the right, “necessary” emotions to seduce her, and also proves to her that this is a confident, independent, self-sufficient man who is accustomed to doing things his own way. And this is a sign of high status that attracts girls.

Defense mechanism

“Insolence is nothing more than a false sign of greatness” (Seneca) Insolence can be a consequence of self-confidence, high social status, a sense of superiority and a sense of security. But often behind arrogance lies... self-doubt. In essence, these are two sides of the same coin, the same phenomenon. In order to somehow balance out his self-doubt, in order to prove to himself that everything is different, a person (most often a teenager) begins to show impudence.

He does not yet know himself, and his sense of self-importance forces him to seek confirmation in the outside world - in how people, animals, virtual characters, physical objects, etc. react to him.
Sometimes, for this purpose, he can humiliate another person or kick the door of his own closet, which suddenly gets in the way of an “important” person. This kind of self-affirmation is sometimes practiced by fully grown people, but this is already a pathology.

National trait

Hutzpa is a cocktail of super-arrogance, obnoxiousness, self-esteem with a complete absence of timidity and shyness. In its original form, the concept exists only in the Hebrew language, where it is considered a positive character trait. However, there are exceptions to all rules: not all Jews have this character trait, but many oligarchs do. After all, in fact, it all comes down to education.

An example of hutzpah: a man guilty of murdering his parents asks the judge for leniency on the grounds that he is an orphan. Or, for example: a man trips his mother-in-law, she falls out of the window, and he shouts after her in a tragic voice: “Where are you going, mom?!” A person with hutzpah will easily invite the prom queen to dance, unreasonably demand a promotion or an increase in salary - or whatever.

Hutzpa is a special kind of pride that motivates one to act despite the danger of being unprepared, incapable or insufficiently experienced. Khutzpa means special courage, the desire to fight an unpredictable fate. The bearer of hutzpah calmly reacts to strangers, authority figures, to situations when attention is drawn to him or when he is being evaluated. At the same time, he behaves as if he does not care about the possibility of being wrong (and, in general, this is the case). In practice, this leads to the fact that over a long period of time a person receives a greater reward for his actions than if he evaded them, and does not attach importance to minor troubles (quote from the multimedia textbook “History of Russia”).

About the mental phenomenon “arrogance”

Manifestations of impudence have been little studied from the standpoint of psychophysiology. The article will show that this is an important mark of the stage of passing the process of forming any skills, a side effect of a skill that is not yet quite confidently developed in conditions of the urgent need to obtain the desired result with certain obstacles to this.

The word “arrogance” in everyday life is clearly shocking in nature, but should not interfere with the correct consideration of its psychophysiological background, and there is no reason yet to choose a more euphonious, “scientific” term for it.

Of course, what the development of individual manifestations of arrogance into a style of arrogant behavior can lead to, goes far beyond the root causes, as happens with literally all the makings of adaptive mechanisms of creativity: art and science, which, in turn, are qualitatively divided into many types. So this article will only consider the primary mechanism and its manifestations.

Current understanding of the meaning of the word .

As a rule, the word arrogance is understood as daring behavior that encroaches on generally accepted norms, an expression of protest through scandalous (shocking) means.

Impudence (the original meaning of this word is “suddenness, speed, courage,” cf. the expression How dare you!) - audacity, impudence. Possible manifestations are increased tone, louder voice, looking straight into the eyes without looking away (piercing gaze, staring), attempts to somehow confuse the interlocutor, the use of lies, grinning, sticking out thumbs and wiggling them. It may be a consequence of self-confidence, high social status, another sense of superiority, despair, indignation, or consciousness of one’s safety. Typical reaction: irritation, contempt, opposition.

By the way, shocking characteristic avant-garde, and partly modernist (one way or another, but any destructive) art, however, refers “to extra-aesthetic and, even more so, extra-artistic reactions.” From a psychological point of view, shocking is one of the forms of demonstrative behavior.

Arrogance and self-doubt as two polarities

...Impudence- it's something like shamelessness and daring self-confident impudence, which borders on rudeness. Sometimes arrogance has a positive connotation when the emphasis is on confidence in the actions performed, and not in their unceremoniousness. In our time diffidence often contrasted with such “positive” arrogance.

With all this seemingly quite unambiguous understanding, the boundaries of the phenomenon turn out to be quite blurred, and the manifestations of arrogance themselves are controversial, if we do not consider how and why arrogance arises, at what time in the development of the individual it begins to manifest itself and what is the reason for this. Moreover, the phenomenon has almost not been studied from the position of psychophysiology, although a lot of literature provides purely empirical studies of the manifestations of arrogance in describing the periodization of the development of the organism. And these manifestations concern not only humans.

A specialized complex of brain regions that controls social behavior was first discovered in mammals, then in other land vertebrates, and even in fish. American biologists have shown that different groups of vertebrates have similar not only the structure of this complex, but also the nature of the work of key genes in it. Those differences that do exist affect to a greater extent the synthesis of signaling substances (neurotransmitters) and, to a lesser extent, the distribution of receptors that respond to these substances. Apparently, already the last common ancestor of ray-finned fish and terrestrial vertebrates had a socially oriented neural network, the basic structural and neurochemical properties of which changed very slowly during further evolution.

... The most amazing property of the SDM network is its evolutionary conservatism, that is, the extremely slow pace of evolutionary changes...the basic socially oriented tasks of all vertebrates are similar: to attract good sexual partners, defeat competitors, increase your social status, raise more healthy offspring... This fundamental similarity of life aspirations probably creates the preconditions for the development of more or less universal socially oriented neural structures during evolution.

The commonality of the mechanisms of manifestation of arrogance and the existing factual materials allows us to systematize and specify the mechanism, thereby more correctly clarifying the formal definition. This is what will be done in this article.

Here are some illustrative examples of their empirical articles.

When a child is rude and bickering

Yes, children tend to be arrogant at times!... Most often, the reason for this behavior is that a small child is simply testing on his parents what he learned from TV shows or heard from older children living next door.

Even if your six-year-old child, when you put him to bed, shows great ability in an argument, proving that he is not yet tired at all, let him know that you know more. You can, of course, praise his manner of dialogue and promise that you will listen to him later, but at the same time point out that you still know better when he should go to bed.... Families where children do not hesitate to approach their parents in order to calmly presenting their arguments on a particular issue can be considered healthy families. However, even in such democratic families, where everyone can say what they think, there are situations when the last word must remain with the parents. If you find yourself in a situation in which you must demonstrate your power, then you need to immediately clearly determine that this is the moment, and then resolutely stop any discussion.

Hyperactivity - one of the most common behavioral dysfunctions, which has a significant impact on the development of the child...In the age group up to 7 years, behavioral disorders in the form of hyperactivity with attention disorders are accompanied by delayed psychomotor development: a lag in the development of fine and gross motor skills, auditory and visual perception, etc. .d. There is a slight transition from tears to laughter. Age-related interests, including intellectual ones (for example, to the contents and illustrations of books), may not be sufficiently developed. There are disturbances in social interactions, primarily with adults: children do not keep their distance, are familiar, and tend to be arrogant. Peers often reject such children because of their impulsiveness and outbursts of anger, inability to adhere to the rules in games, and sowing discord.

Hyperactivity is characteristic not only of developmental pathologies caused by internal factors, but also as the initial period of developing adaptive skills in any area and at any age. In this case, problems with attention and assessment of the significance of what is perceived in the context of the development of new ideas will have the specifics of the DVGA. The fact that this provokes manifestations of arrogance speaks of the conditions of insufficient sophistication, insufficient confidence and inability to be weighed judiciously in these new circumstances.

The teenage crisis is not as simple as it seems at first glance. There are different variants of manifestation, let us designate extreme cases: the teenage crisis of “excessive independence” (denial of authorities, negative behavioral manifestations, aggression, rudeness, the desire for independence by any means, stubbornness, arrogance, opposing oneself to others, etc.) and the teenage crisis “ excessive dependence" (complete lack of independence, dependence on other people, infantilism in views and behavior, the desire to be with everyone and "like everyone else", loyalty to authorities, the desire to be a "correct" child, a return to more childish interests, etc.)

Psychophysiology of the phenomenon .

Considering that the child goes through critical periods of development of brain structures, each of which is characterized by its own specificity of the best sensory activity (which is discussed on the parallel website Chronotope) and specific manifestations of mental reactions arise, it is possible to find the place of the beginning and development of manifestations of impudence.

The period of trusting learning is replaced by a period of playful trampling of authority. However, the origins of arrogance arise earlier, when there is an urgent need (no matter what the condition is), or rather, there is a dominant motivation that determines the context of behavior and demands that this behavior be performed at all costs.

What distinguishes this state from the commonly used understanding of the word “arrogance” is that the action is not hindered by any motivation that contradicts it, and it is carried out as soon as it arises. Of course, an annoyed parent may think about a child who literally ruined the clothes they just changed that this is impudence. But impudence is active opposition to someone or something, provided by a subject who has shown such impudence without a sufficiently confident forecast of the consequences. Although the baby has no predictions of consequences at all, he does not make a conscious volitional effort to overcome the internal conflict, his impudence is still involuntary.

During the period of playful violation of authority, there is already a baggage of perceived norms of behavior, which often turns out to be in conflict with the current dominant motivation, and there is still no confident forecast of how the attempt to violate the norm will end. If motivation exceeds the blocking influence of norms, it becomes possible to display impudence in behavior in all cases where there is no time or ability to comprehend the situation more creatively.

During the period of the end of trusting learning for the entire period of gaming trampling on authority, the individual displays more decisive, revolutionary options for testing behavior with still very little life experience, cutting off many such options, which, of course, ends in tears in many attempts to gain extreme experience. This dependence is gradually corrected by the sad experience of unsuccessful attempts, leaving more conservative options viable. (see Revolutions are in vain in young countries)

So, impudence is an attempt to take active action 1) in conditions of motivational dominance, 2) in conflict with previous experience, with 3) significant uncertainty (lack of a confident forecast) and 4) lack of time or comprehension skills. If the dominant exceeds uncertainty and moral taboos, then the action is performed.

It seems that such a definition, which formalizes the identified mechanisms of the psyche (a triggering stimulus in the context of active motivation, exceeding the risk of predicted consequences accessible to awareness) most fully correlates with the current understanding of the word “arrogance.”

Impudence is always an act of conscious will, requiring volitional effort to exceed the limiting factors of previous experience, if it has not already become a style of unconscious behavior.

Impudence is a step dictated not by reason (creative understanding of the situation with finding an acceptable course of action in the face of risks), but by an acute subjective need for action (see About dangers). This is aggression, first of all, in relation to one’s previous experience.

An impudent action that ends happily with the desired results receives a positive assessment (“impudence is the second happiness”) and this is where the dominant is exhausted, freeing up the area of ​​awareness.

In case of failure, a negative experience is acquired that blocks such actions, but the motivational dominant may remain, more inclined to creative rather than extreme behavior.

In the case of a delay in action, the dominant can exist for years and develop as an unresolved, but very pressing problem, acquiring many subjectively produced assumptions, of which those that promise the desired result have a clear preference. This is the path of increasing subjectivism and inadequacy. This is the way of developing a fixed idea in conditions of conflict with carriers of unacceptable views, and, accordingly, with all the attributes of the development of paranoid schizophrenia, with obligatory conspiracy theories and with increased chances of irreparable mental disorders.

In attempts to justify the desired idea, with insufficient determination or the ability to implement it, more and more absurdity, obvious from an outside point of view, arises, mental defects that are not noticed by the bearer of an important idea.

Examples of manifestations of impudence and its consequences .

Anyone who has raised a child has encountered the situation of being unable to rationally explain something to him if the child still lacks the intermediate concepts necessary for understanding, but he really wants something to the point of impatience. There is a feeling of powerlessness, despite all the wisdom of the adult. When you persistently try to reason and explain something with the active impudence of bickering, sometimes such states arise that in addition to powerlessness a feeling of the absurdity of your own understanding of the situation is added, which, with accumulated fatigue and endless attempts to explain and counter bickering, can actually damage the psyche.

The child believes that the parent is wrong on some issue important to him and tries to blatantly challenge the rightness with aggressive attempts to impose his naive ideas. In this case, accordingly, any reasoning arguments are useless. The two sides conflicting in this way differ in that the more experienced one easily sees the essence of the naive’s misconceptions, but cannot explain this due to the naive’s lack of intermediate ideas. The arrogant one, with the strength of his motivating dominant, eliminates everything that contradicts it, strengthens all positive forecasts for his idea, comes up with arguments in support, without noticing (not wanting to notice) what is contradictory. His confidence turns out to be no less than the confidence of an experienced person, despite the obvious inadequacy and untested idea in practice.

Many examples of arrogance can be easily found in the statements of naive oppositionists. Thus, they ardently convince themselves and others that there were 200 thousand participants at the “March of Millions” on June 12, 2012, not noticing that the capacity of the venue does not exceed 50 thousand, and an indication of infidelity only causes attempts to justify in any way, first of all, in your words, this figure and transfer the depravity of arrogant logic onto your opponents, attributing to them exactly what they themselves are incorrect in.

Characterized by impudence about Onishchenko, where the author is in a shocking form ( G. Onishchenko banned Russians eat sushi) complains that the country's chief doctor does not recommend eating sushi in a restaurant - as a result of checking these restaurants to comply with sanitary standards for controlling fish for helminths. As an additional argument against the country's out-of-mind top specialist, the author cites Onishchenko's deadly recommendation, in his opinion, not to be afraid to consume GMOs. The author, obviously for specialists, showed himself to be a complete layman in the issues raised, far from Onishchenko’s level of understanding, but some features of Onishchenko’s speech gave him reason to suspect him of absurdity and malicious intent. All the signs of impudence are present in this example.

One can cite and recall many examples of manifestations of arrogance in relation not to an opponent, but to inanimate deterrents. If you really need to jump over a fast current, but you are not sure that you will jump to the other bank, but you really need to, then this state of aggressive arrogance may arise with the commission of risky actions. The experience gained will correct ideas about the possible, but if you do not decide and develop these ideas, for example, in a strong desire to fly with the power of thought (or something paranormal), then a complex of inadequacies will arise, provoking multiple manifestations of arrogance that are already difficult to correct from -for a developed motivational dominant (fixed idea).

Almost always, people who have achieved some heights in the development of professional skills are in many other ways perceived as ordinary, unremarkable, even repulsive people and, moreover, often demonstrate signs that are perceived negatively (eccentric professor, crazy scientist, etc.) .p.), which are sufficient grounds for those who in this area do not have ideas comparable in depth to try to challenge them, but have a pronounced motivation to aggressively challenge the undesirable.

Benefit-harm.

Dissatisfaction with the existing, giving rise to creativity, is positive for the adaptability of not only the individual, but also those associated with the common culture of other representatives of the species, but if this is combined with a motivational dominant that requires immediate action or the manifestation of one’s attitude in order to influence others, then an aggressive attempt arises subordination of one’s will, just as the will has already subordinated to the dominant the previous personal experience that conflicted with it. But the uncertainty generated by the lack of experience in such actions carries a very high probability of inadequacy, i.e. in most cases, such actions will be detrimental to the overall adaptability of the species. This is somewhat reminiscent of the situation with mutations, the vast majority of which are harmful and only a few, which turn out to be successful by chance, provide an evolutionary advantage.

In view of the overwhelming majority of inadequate outcomes of arrogant actions, arrogance is generally perceived negatively, so pointing out arrogance is perceived as an insult, although this should be a signal for the insolent person to come to his senses.

A revolutionary is a carrier of a motivational dominant, who has overcome its conflicts in himself and is trying to do this in relation to others. The results of revolutions have the most dire consequences for all who did not share the convictions and all who unwittingly found themselves under the destructive influence of the inadequacy of ideas. If the desire for innovation is mainly characteristic of a relatively early age, but arrogance can manifest itself at any age if the conditions for its occurrence are met.

In any country, at any level of democracy and prosperity, there is a percentage of people who, in certain situations, find themselves in conditions conducive to the manifestation of arrogance. It would not be correct to call them full-fledged oppositionists. These are naive oppositionists or insolent people.

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How to recognize manifestations of arrogance in yourself and others?

Unexpected manifestations of ardor in considering a problem, motivating the impudence of manifestations of this ardor, may in itself surprise the person showing arrogance, make him perplexed, but not give up the idea.

As already noted, from the point of view of sophisticated people, naivety is recognized instantly on the basis of experience and, accordingly, arrogance is recognized. There are no problems here: the teacher immediately sees the student’s mistake, no matter how he makes excuses. And he usually has sufficient skill and ability to overcome impudent resistance.

There are so many proverbs and sayings in the Russian language with the word arrogance: “Insolence is the second happiness”, “Give the impudent free rein - he will want more.” This word is mentioned several times even in the Bible, but what does it mean?

Meaning of the word

The noun "impudence" is a word derived from the adjective "insolent". Denotes a character trait akin to impudence and audacity. It manifests itself in a direct, point-blank gaze, raising the voice or tone, or trying to confuse the interlocutor in any way. Most often the result of impunity and a sense of security, a feeling of superiority over others due to high social status, self-confidence or despair.

For other people, impudence causes contempt, irritation, or a desire to counteract.

The word “impudence” comes from the Old Russian “insolence”. The meaning of the word then was somewhat different - “fast, quick.” Knowing this, you look differently at the established expression: “Look, how fast!” You can safely say: “Look, how impudent!” - and the meaning will not change.

The main signs of impudence

Who is most often called an impudent person? After all, this quality has very wide and blurred boundaries. Some call impudence arrogance, while others call it excessive confidence.

So, an arrogant person is one who is characterized by the following qualities:

• complete disregard for the opinion of society, the norms established by it, if the latter stand in the way of achieving the goal;
• without a shadow of embarrassment a person can take what does not belong to him if he wants;
• The impudent person puts his own interests above all else. He has no love for children or women. If a person needs it, he will “go over the heads”;
• if an arrogant person is reprimanded, he will remain silent or begin to be rude, but will not change his behavior tactics;
• there is no sense of shame at all, and you don’t care what you think about;
• persistent and demanding, there is also the expression “takes impudently”;
• constantly interferes in the affairs of others, while imposing a point of view, even when not asked.

Is being arrogant good or bad?

Of course, if arrogance is something similar to a lack of shame or self-confident impudence, then it is bad for others. But today, when the world belongs to self-confident people, the word “arrogance” also means complete confidence in the actions performed by a person. The main thing is not to be unceremonious towards your opponents. In this vein, this concept has a positive connotation.

The antagonism of “positive” arrogance will be self-doubt and fear of taking a step towards changing your life. At their core, arrogance and self-doubt are sides of the same coin.

Uncertainty and arrogance: are they close?

So what does the word “arrogance” mean? Its meaning becomes clearer if we break down arrogance as a manifestation into its components. It immediately becomes clear that an insolent person is often just an insecure person. Only in order to prove to himself and others that this is not so, an insecure person begins to show impudence.

He has an exaggerated sense of “importance,” and in order to confirm to himself that he is irreplaceable and priceless, the insolent person (read: insecure) seeks to humiliate others in order to rise in his own eyes. No one to humiliate? And the locker will come, we’ll kick it, there’s no point in standing in the way of such an “important” person. And the insolent person asserts himself out of fear of experiencing humiliation. Note that an insolent person will never humiliate a person if he feels strength and power in advance. slows him down.

When arrogance comes into conflict with wisdom, it is like a meeting between an elephant and Moska. A wise elephant does not need to assert himself; he is confident in himself and his strength. That's why he's so calm. And the mongrel always barks, but every muscle inside her trembles. She, having overcome her fear, asserts herself.

One thing the insolent person cannot understand for himself is that “strength” that rests on the “weakness” of those around him is worthless. In fact, strength lies in the ability to achieve one’s own without pressure and humiliation of others, weaker ones. Arrogance is a complete lack of understanding of yourself and your needs.

Why do we get annoyed by other people's impudence?

What is an irritant for everyone is what lives in us and we do not like or are forbidden. In other words, the impudence of another person irritates us because it lives within us. We ourselves would be happy to assert ourselves at the expense of others, but we do not like it when they assert themselves at our expense.

But being insolent is not so bad if we hold back this trait within ourselves, suppress it and release it out in the form of confidence. As soon as self-understanding comes, other people's impudence, the meaning of which becomes clear to us, ceases to irritate us.

What benefits can it bring?

If you have “positive” arrogance, it can even help you in some way. There are five aspects of the positive impact of this quality on you and your life:

1. Your self-esteem will increase. Often, public opinion and clichés hammered into them in childhood prevent a person from taking action. And if there is also self-doubt in one’s own abilities, then the fear of getting the opinion that you are just an impudent person restrains a person from moving forward. Spontaneous actions help increase your self-esteem (the main thing is that the actions are not aimed at harming another person).
2. Your situation will improve. Having done it, we often reproach ourselves and feel guilty, but time passes and we understand that this one was the most correct one. This means that arrogance is what helped solve a situation that was simply impossible to solve in any other way.
3. Life begins to change. Read and you will notice how many examples there are when such “arrogant”, thoughtless, actions carried out on intuition led to a radical change in the entire course of life. His career began to take off, his wealth grew, and success came. And people simply did what others considered unacceptable. That is, they were impudent.
4. The desired is achieved. People often discuss other people's requests. It so happened that in our time it is believed that asking means humiliation, and if you also ask for yourself, then this is simply unacceptable impudence. But successful people look at requests completely differently. You just need to ask the right people in the right way.
5. Emergence of persistence in action. Often others mistake our persistence for impudence. But is this right? Even the Bible says: “Knock and it will be opened to you.” And if the desired result is obtained and you celebrate the victory, then is the opinion of others so important?

Is it worth being arrogant?

If we consider the word “arrogance”, the definition of which comes from the point of view of the above aspects, then the word “insolent” thrown in the back will no longer sound like an insult, but as a recognition - you are on the right path, moving towards your goal. And people have always condemned and discussed those who stand out from the crowd.

If you know that you are acting for (your) good and not harming others, then what do you care about other people’s opinions? Just move towards your goal and don't be afraid to take risks.

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See daring... Dictionary of Russian synonyms and similar expressions. under. ed. N. Abramova, M.: Russian Dictionaries, 1999. insolent, impudent, shameless, shameless, unscrupulous, unceremonious, shameless, boorish, impudent; frivolous...... Synonym dictionary

INCREDIBLE, impudent, insolent; impudently, impudently, impudently. Shameless and daring, extremely impudent. Blatant lie. A brazen act. A brazen attack. “Women were afraid of his brazen pursuits.” Herzen. Ushakov's explanatory dictionary. D.N. Ushakov. 1935 1940 ... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary

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impudent- 1 shamelessly arrogant amazingly arrogant 2 arrogant deception... Dictionary of Russian Idioms

impudent- Old Russian – nagl (fast). Common Slavic – naglъ. The adjective “arrogant”, meaning “tactless”, “unceremonious”, is Slavic in origin, primordial. In other Slavic languages ​​there are also words with the same meaning and... ... Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language Semenov

Impudent, impudent, impudent, Ukrainian. impudent, sudden, other Russian, tslav. impudently fast, fast, bolg. insolently insolently, Serbohorvian. Nagao, zh. impudently hasty, Slovenian. nagǝl, woman nagla sudden, Czech. nahly - the same, slvts. nahly, Polish, in... ... Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language by Max Vasmer

Adj. Extremely cheeky; daring, shameless. Ephraim's explanatory dictionary. T. F. Efremova. 2000... Modern explanatory dictionary of the Russian language by Efremova

Books

• Return to the language New level An impudent tutorial on creating texts, O. Zhdanov. An impudent tutorial for a writer, journalist and novelist. A tutorial on creating texts. The manual is designed to develop in schoolchildren, students and aspiring journalists the ability to create beautiful,…
• Return to language. An impudent self-teacher for a writer, journalist and novelist, Oleg Zhdanov. The manual is designed to develop in schoolchildren, students and aspiring journalists the ability to create beautiful, vivid and accurate images, remaining within the framework of the existing Russian language, without vulgarizing...