THE INTERNAL RESISTANCE FILES

How We Know if We’re Good Enough

Jane Elliott PhD
6 min readJul 5, 2022

You can hit your biggest, wildest goals and still be terrified that you don’t really have what it takes. Here’s why it happens, and how to escape the cycle.

Queen Baby with Scepter. Credit: Alamy

For years in my academic career, every paper I gave felt like I was walking a tightrope over an abyss. Any exposure of my ideas was a referendum on whether I was a star or a…

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Jane Elliott PhD

Coach, Prof, Writer, Swear-er | I help high-achievers overcome internal resistance—that mysterious thing that makes us struggle to do the work we want to do.