The biggest single difference between working class people and middle or upper class people? At an individual level - confidence. I look at some of the interns I have met in Westminster, and they have more confidence in their late teens or early twenties, than I had in my late thirties.
"I truly believe that confidence is learned. No one is born confident. I think confidence is dependent on how your brain functions and what you have experienced in your life. I have not read or studied anything to back this up. This is just what I think from my experiences. If you want references and scientific evidence you need another book. I think people are born with different levels of chemicals in their brain which affect levels of anxiety and stress and depression. The levels of these chemicals will make it easier or harder to learn to become confident, but you still have to learn. I totally reject the idea that some people are born confident."
The comedian Rob Beckett in his book "A class act: Life as a working class man in a middle class world" (London: Harper Collins), p. 221
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