Don't Have Confidence? Than Fake It.

The other day I was walking through the halls of the University and I decided to ask random girls some more random questions. The question I asked them this time was "What is the most attractive trait a man can have?" Almost every girl I talked to said that confidence is probably the most attractive trait a man can have, with humor being a close second. Although some of them obviously mentioned more shallow desires associated with a man's body. Interestingly I found that that the younger the girl is the more common those shallow answers were, the age range was 17-23. About 5% didn't know what the word "trait" meant, yeah.
I am not the most confident person in the world, I happen to be quiet and shy. However, I make it a point to always make eye contact and when I talk I try to make the words come out smoothly with no "uhhs" or "umms". Strangely I'm not afraid of public speaking, I can talk to 100+ people fine, but get me in a room with ten or twelve people and I shut up. I think I'm low on the shyness scale, I don't have anxiety about meeting new people, I actually enjoy it. It just takes me some time to open up.
Humor is another story, I like to make people laugh, and using my awkwardness and wit seems to work and I am able to make people laugh enough. I use dry/sarcastic humor, and self-depricating humor as well. Although recently when I was meeting a friend's girlfriend, I actually made the poor girl cry by being dry and sarcastic. My other friend said that she was too sensitive, which made the girl cry even more. So it was a vicious cycle. They're still together, although I'm pretty sure that meeting will go down as one of the worst all-time first impressions. I don't think it could get much worse than making a girl cry when you first meet them.