How Norway Helped Me To Become Super Humble

There’s a fine line between confidence and cockiness

Srini
6 min readMar 25, 2023
Harvey Specter played by Gabriel Macht | Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

I used to be confident in everything I did in life. After becoming an ardent fan of Suits, the staggeringly arrogant lead character Harvey Specter subconsciously turned me into a cocky person. There’s a fine line between confidence and cockiness. That line became invisible to me.

After I moved to Norway, I often even quoted Harvey Specter to my Norwegian friends —

“What are your choices when someone puts a gun to your head? You do what they say or they shoot you, right? WRONG! You take the gun, or you pull out a bigger one. Or, you call their bluff. Or, you do any one of a hundred and forty six other things.”

“I’m not interested in great. I want to know who its Daddy is.”

“I don’t play the odds. I play the man.”

And my all-time favorite —

“It’s not bragging if it’s true.”

Little did I know Norwegians were not huge fans of not only cocky people but also…

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