Personal confidence makes a big difference to this as the original poster pointed out.
I used to be very geeky and wimpy when I was younger, I was getting beaten up and into fights almost on a weekly basis.
After taking some martial arts lessons, and joining the army, I became very confident in my ability to handle myself.
Since that point when my confidence shifted, and my fear of getting into fights stopped, I haven't had a single fight.
It was an amazing shift for me. Like coming out of a storm that had been raging around me for years. One year I was in regular fights, the next, nothing. |