Fake confidence gets exposed by the first hard question. Real confidence can say “I don’t know yet.”

Bluffing is a structure that holds only while nobody pushes on it. One specific question and the whole thing has to be defended, so the conversation turns into a performance about not getting caught. Someone actually secure has an easier time of it, because admitting a gap costs them nothing they were leaning on.

Use the full sentence this week when it fits: you do not know yet, and here is how you intend to find out. The second half is what keeps it from sounding like surrender. People trust that answer far more than a smooth one that turns out to be air.