User blog comment:Mrdaimion/Rant: Why Nice Guys Finish Last/@comment-3220924-20120702014243/@comment-4353921-20120703134906

I agree with the confidence point. Everyone liked to hang around the people with confidence. In school, they're the ones with a crowd around them, and not for being the quarterback of the winning team. Although, that inspires confidence, too. Guys and gals both would follow those folks around, trying to be their friend. They were often the outgoing, social kids, too, simply because of their self-assuredness.

These folks were my majority of friends in school. Interestingly enough, the guys I wanted to date in high school saw me as a friend, and the boys that wanted to go out with me were only interested in one thing. *blech*