: Cool is confidence Confidence may inspire people to follow you, but you don't have to be a leader to be confident. You need neither physical strength nor physical endurance to exude confidence.

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Cool is confidence

Confidence may inspire people to follow you, but you don't have to be a leader to be confident.

You need neither physical strength nor physical endurance to exude confidence. Neither is a particular "look" really necessary.

Cool is level-headedness

If you're truly confident (or good at faking it), you don't lose your "cool." That means you aren't upset by little things.

Cool is self-awareness

Not the downer self-awareness of the overly taciturn, but enough awareness that you know how not to step in proverbial (or literal) dog-poop. Speaking of which...

Cool is being competent enough (in the circles you move in) that your confidence doesn't make you look absurd

So, as other people have alluded to, your cool character might need some kind of talent or competency to back up that confidence they're oozing.

And don't forget...

Cool isn't petty

You don't have to be nice to be cool, exactly. But it isn't cool to be a jerk. Unless the jerk-move you just pulled was seen (by the those thinking of you as cool) as deserved by the recipient. But if you want compassionate people to think that you're cool, you can't be too transparently unpleasant.

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