He was born
in poor Bosnian family in Sweden. He had a difficult childhood. But hard work
and self-confidence made him a hero. His skills and character are admired by
millions of football fans. “Swedish style? No. Yugoslavian style? Of course not.
It has to be Zlatan-style.”
1.
Do
you think Zlatan is arrogant?
2.
Where
is the border between confidence and arrogance?
3.
Would
you like to work with somebody like Zlatan Ibrahimović?
Comments
2. Difference is that real champion don't talk how good he is. Real champion shows it on the field, octagon, trace etc. Confidence is a way of thinking about yourself and arrogance is talking, sometimes only talking. Greatest sportsman's of all time including Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali or Niki Lauda were the personification of humility.
3. Definitely not. It's good news for his current teammates that Zlatan changes his club every 2-3 years. If Zlatan was a kind of player that can make difference in winning trophy it may be possible for me to work with him. But he isn't so that's why I would not like to work with him.
Also, some quotes:
Michael Jordan - "There is no 'I' in team, but there is in win"
Muhammad Ali - "I'm not the greatest, I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round."
That does of course not change the fact that Ibrahimovic is super arrogant, often also acting like a simpleton. I do not envy people having to work with him on a daily basis.
Arrogance repels positive people. It breaks down trust and a collaborative environment, because an arrogant person thinks only of himself, he's full of fears and complexes. Whereas confidence attracts positive people, promotes progress.
I can't say whether Zlatan confident or arrogant, because I don't know him personally, don't know what's on his mind. I can only guess.
2.There is no border,i think, you must always be a human with a heart. Of course, you do not need to think about other people opinions, but certainly you need to pay attention to the thing how everything can change if you say something not typical others.
3.No way! Everyone can be in this kind of situation and i think, every person will have motivation to do things similar to Zlatan's(work hard and etc.) when you get this amount of money and speaking about his past, yeah, it was so hard,but what is the difference between him and other hard-working person,who is maybe playing better and feeling better the game,but living in village and doesn't have chance to show yourself?
Ok, bragging when you're not good is bad, but why telling the truth is perceived as something bad? Why anyone should hide that they are confident and results are not an accident, but come from hard work?
In my opinion, he is very a troubled man, raised with no family. He clearly believes there is no other way but the elbow way to the top. He doesn’t care about anything else than Zlatan. However, his history is touching, fans probably love it, and he fits into the whole football world, full of glamour and heroes who managed to learn how to properly kick the ball and tie their shoes. Sometimes they don’t even have to do the latter.
I wasn’t surprised that his life is mostly based on competition, who runs faster or shoots harder and obviously his ego. There are lots of people with so much harder and complex problems but he succeeded in making himself believe he is the one who survived and should get the attention. I think it gives him the motivation but I pity those who work with him. Now, confidence is not arrogance and I think there is no line between them, they are not opposites but just different, so I think he’s both arrogant and confident.
I wish him good luck in finding some piece. When it comes to the last question, my post answers it a lot.
There is a tiny line between arogance and confidence, like with courage and stupidity. Hard to tell where is the border.
If we had the same objective, it would be great to work with him, but as for interpersonal relations/communication I wouldn't want to work with him.
He sounds arrogant and self-centered. In his self-obsession and delusions of grandeur he can complete with Kanye West who inspired a website "GIVE ME MORE KANYE-FIDENCE".
It must be nightmare to work with a person who has such a big ego.
I would prefer to work with George Best, who was also an exceptionally talented and confident player, but at least he did not take himself too seriously. His confidence was sexy. He was very bright and had a sharp sense of humor; "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
Looking at the reporting about the Swedish team in the Euro 2016, it’s ”Zlatan, Zlatan, Zlatan, and… oh, there are actually other team members?” Really annoying coming from Swedish , even though it’s not his fault.
The border between arrogance and confidence is called "respect". If you show respect to others you can't be arrogant.
Would I want to work with somebody like Zlatan? I would try to check if I could handle person like this.
Secondly, it depends on your perception of these meanings. Everyone decides where self-confidence ends and arrogance begins. Perhaps, the things which he loves doing are not arrogant for him. So, in short, it's a personal issue.
Actually, when it comes to making money we are inclined to work in the most difficult terms, so I would work with him as his own manager. No doubt that it's very profitable.
Such behavior is absolutely not acceptable for me. If you playing in one team you have to support each other not to show that you are better.
So yes, he is arrogant, and I'd not want to do any business with him. But at the same time I can't blame him for that, as it's a common thing with a huge self-confidence to overestimate one's worth - I have similar view myself, but I rather keep it tampered.
I don't believe in sportsmen and their succes stories. They could be inspirational, but it is too overrated. For me, being good, even being a professional, in sport it is not enough to decide, wheter I want or don't want to work with such person.
I admire Zlatan for his hard work, but I don't think I would really like to work with him or someone like him. All in all, such people might be quite hard to live and work with them.
You can work hard, be the best and be "normal".
I think that the main difference between arrogance and confidence is that arrogant people are not always so sure about their skills, they just act like that because otherwise people may stop treating them seriously. Confident people don't always feel the need to show off what their capable of, instead they may teach other people how to be better at what they do. Arrogant people on the other hand are too self-centered, they probably wouldn't be as good as co-workers, teachers, etc. They just can't admit it when they do something wrong or that someone could've done something better than they did.
I wouldn't like to work with him since he's not really a team player. I like people that I can rely on and he doesn't seem to be of that type.
2. Confidence does not mean you can underestimate your opponent and nobody can criticize you. Zlatan cannot be criticized becouse he is perfect and if he looses it is becouse his team wasnt passing to him enough.
3. Who would? See how many clubs he have played for. He is arrogant but also disloyal. That is also a huge problem.
2.The border between confidence and arrogance probably lies just where the person, who is defining it, believes it lies.
3.No, thanks.
2 I think the difference between confidence and arrogance is in how you treat other people. It's good to have your own opinion on the matter, it's only when you convince yourself that your opinion is much more important than those of other people, when we start to have a problem.
3 Look at answer to 1
2)I think that difference is only how you treat others.
3)I don`t how he reached success so I cant realy answer this question.
2. Generally speaking, there is a really small border between confidence and arrogance. In my opinion, a confident person is a person who believes in himself (or herself) and doesn't think too much about what others think, while an arrogant person thinks he is the best and the others are worst. In case of sportsmans, it's harder to determine if a player is arrogant, because all of them are very confident. In my view, they are professionals and respect each other, although we can find some examples, which doesn't belong to this group.
3. Probably he is hard to cooperate, however i think i would like to work with him. For sure he is professional. I guess that in case of football players, his behaviour is rather normal. It may be possible, than in other fields he will not be so confident.
2)Difference is mostly in how arrogant people treat others and how they react if someone prooves to be better than they.
3)I don`t how he reached success so I cant realy answer this question.
1. Do you think Zlatan is arrogant?
Yes he is ! I remember in one of his interviews there was a question asked - "Do you think you would score if you would shoot with your better leg?" - and fast answer given - "Zlatan doesn't have a better leg - they are both perfect" - nailed it all the way.
2. Where is the border between confidence and arrogance?
I think the more quality and confidence you have the more arrogance will be forgiven. There is a very thin line between arrogance and confidence... but reality verifies everything. In case of Zlatan it is a second option.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnyesSJ7WdA
to sum up :)
3. Would you like to work with somebody like Zlatan Ibrahimović?
Many people I work with are just like that. If it comes to specialist of some level it is just included in price. When they say something can be done it the way they say (when about 20 people in the room says otherwise) you are not treating this as an arrogant answer but that they are just very aware of their capabilities. I love this kind of people - not afraid of doing anything and thinking out of the box.
I don't want to work with him. I'm a person who like interesting person with strange personality traits but when i feel that someone try to attack me in this mental way (This seems to be Zaltan) this makes me feel like I'm tired of spending time with person like him.
2. In my opinion, border between being self-confident and arrogant is thin but quite clear. You can be a very self-confident person, so you know your strengths and you know how to use them, but also you are able to play in a team, appreciate other’s skills and collaborate with them. Self-confident people also can admit when they are wrong and know their weaknesses. This is not the case of arrogant people which are self-centered and they rarely admit that other people also can be good at something ( see Ibra’s statement: “not everybody is Ibra”). Arrogant people often don’t see their weaknesses and do not concede that the did something wrong.
3. It would be hard for me to work with someone like Zlatan as this type of people are often stubborn and do not really want to collaborate with others. Another issue is that they are very demanding about the quality of skills of people they cooperate with, which seems to be a good thing at first sight , but in general is quite inefficient in teams consisting of members with different levels of skills.
Working with somebody like Zlatan could be a good motivation for work.
While it would probably not be easy to work with someone like him, if he was good at the job and knew what he was doing then why not?
This is not the same player. It seems that Zlatan's self-confidence can not be broken. Borden between arrogance and confidence is a very tiny and I think Ibra is on it. In my opinion he is the perfect leader for his teammates. I would like to be in his team.
It is hard to tell, in fact I don’t know him personally, and I only can assume that he is arrogant from given material. But media can shape the opinion.
Where is the border between confidence and arrogance?
In my opinion there is no sharp border, but when someone is self-confident and has good manners, there is no reason for calling that arrogance. But when someone steal a bike, what is definitely not a good manner, that could be called arrogance.
Would you like to work with somebody like Zlatan Ibrahimović?
Maybe, but not for a long time, methinks.