No. I hate myself most days but I'm always smug af. The latter is a style of communication, not a feeling about oneself.
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(this style, however, derives much of its effect from other people confusing the two. IRL revealing you hate yourself is a social death sentence usually)
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Smugness feels to me like you dislike or look down on other people. Self-satisfied doesn't imply any feelings about others.
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Yeah agreed. You can be smug because, for example, you have a nicer car compared to your peers, but still lack internal self belief
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you're winning in both, but maybe smugness tends toward win-lose (for the other people), and liking yourself more often toward win-win?
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1/ I think this is related to (maybe the same as) the difference between self-love and narcissism. Self love = admitting and acknowledging your flaws and still loving yourself. In addition loving yourself admits of and is strengthened by loving others as well.
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2/ Narcissism = denying/running from your flaws and furthermore crowds out love and respect for others with an infantile focus on yourself alone.
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It depends on whether you like the smug person or not
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Complicated talking about this because there’s a sort of cultural pull/force that takes any attempt at a description of a neutral self-assessment and adds “shallow, selfish, narcissist” connotations That said, IMO lots of smug people hate themselves, they “just” hate others more
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Smugness is often... hating yourself, but loving and admiring the part that does the hating
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