exactly, I have a few friends who are very confident in themselves, sometimes too much so but there are levels that they have their uses.

One of my friends who i'd probably consider my best friend is very confident with everything and has an awful trend of having to have a story be one better than one that he's just heard. I think it's a but of an insecurity on his behalf as it's often around new people he's trying to impress. It means he's decent at sales and very successful with casual dating of women.

I have learned to just let him know when he's annoying me as he never means to (say if he belittles me with a comment that is just over the line of banter in front of a few mates and makes me look unnecessarily stupid).

At the end of the day, the pros massively outweigh the cons. He's always up for hanging out and actually doing stuff when other mates are being boring etc. He's one of the first i'll call if i'm upset etc. and his positive attitude rubs off and makes me confident too.

I'd even attribute him helping me meet my long term girlfriend. Before I knew him, i was pretty hopeless at chatting to women and through him, i learned to be confident and not fear them. When it came to meeting my girlfriend, he wasn't on the night out, but I felt like i could confidently go about winning her over from what i'd learned and the confidence i'd built up hanging out with my friend.

I do feel the saying of "the making of a true friendship is how you come through an arguement with them" rings true. We both love to debate and disagree with stuff but at the end of the day, we know it's never personal and it's more fun than just agreeing with each other all the time anyway!

Growing up, i had a similar friend but without the good bits. Needless to say, after a few months of hanging out with me, I cut my ties (my other friends had come back from uni etc. so had no need for the company of him anymore!)