Confidence is simply the successful conclusion to the act of fooling yourself into thinking that everything is going or will go right. Humans are worriers by nature; since before the monkeys stood up in the savanah, the impulse to worry about where one was getting food or which predators might be about has been pervasive within the forming psyche of our race. Nowadays, our concerns are formed around which member of the opposite (or same) sex will look upon us favorably today, or whether one's credit rating is still clean, or what has happened to one's reputation, or occasionally even when and how one is going to die. Confidence, even though it is a product of what is essentially a deception, is surprisingly valued in human interaction, and is often the true, unconscious goal when we, as people in the information age, strive for money or power or romance. The act of feigning confidence is called arrogance, and ironically, confidence can be easily gained if one spends enough time pretending to have it; arrogance and confidence are often mistaken for one another.