Cutting and pasting this information from Friendster, reading books about particle physics, viewing the world with ironic detachment, cunnilingus, consuming mass quantities of beer, your mom, your daughter, comomusic.com, worshiping Bill Hicks as my personal saviour, pretending I understand Eastern Religion
People who don't feel the need to put others down to make themselves feel better. That's all self confidence really means, i think.
The Darkness, Flaming Lips, Super Furry Animals, Kate Bush, Meatloaf (only Bat Out of Hell), early Brian Eno, Ramones, Social Distortion, (no those aren't ska CD's in my case).
Contact, Sneakers, Pi, Fight Club, Yojimbo and other Kurosawa films, Zatoichi, Lone Wolf and Cub, Real Genius, O Brother Where Art Thou and other Coen brothers films, Donnie Darko, movies where the fight choreographer is Wo Ping, Waking Life
Monster Garage, Junkyard Wars, and shows like them. Adult Swim, Simpsons, Mr. Show, Monty Python. Nip/Tuck is interesting. Various crappy cult shows like Xena, Highlander, Buffy, Farscape, etc.
Cryptonomicon, Dune series, Lord of the Rings, A People's History of the United States, anything written by or about Richard Feynman, anything written by or about Noam Chomsky, A Beautiful Mind, Tao Te Ching, Religions of the World by Houston Smith
Bill Hicks, Richard Feynman, Noam Chomsky, Albert Einstein, Michio Kaku