THE INTERNAL RESISTANCE FILES
How We Know if We’re Good Enough
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.
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…