With idiots however, I find it a terminal struggle.
Precisely, it's a bit of a daft question. When I was a teenager I was not very confident. In my twenties I became more confident. These days I'm smoother than a mink codpiece.
Going to chat them up, nope! But if i have met them through a friend or someone else, then not a problem, in fact, sometimes i get a better conversation from a woman than a man (only sometimes)