Andy Stumpf

Now that can be taken too far.

And like you said, you can talk yourself into this self-selection out of these process.

And that you definitely need to fight because the curriculum of whatever process you're going through is designed to do the job of the curriculum, which if it's a selection course or a crucible, that is to select for people or to wash people out, right?

You don't need to bring any additional stuff into that, but the fact you are second guessing yourself, and I don't mean to a crippling anxiety degree, I mean to the degree that in the back of your mind, you're asking yourself, have I done enough?

Can I do more?

I think those are super healthy questions.

I think those are the keys to success.

I have had imposter syndrome and have imposter syndrome about everything that I do, to include sitting here answering this question, staring at an inanimate object of the camera in front of me.

I don't feel like I'm qualified.

I struggle to not define myself by my mistakes or where I have fallen short.

And when it comes to getting ready to those, you know, if I look back on how I felt,

before I went through BUDS, or let's call it the night before.

And we're looking in the way back time machine here at this point, a couple of decades.

If I had to pick a word, and again, this is only me and this is only my word.

I don't know about anybody else.

My word would be fear.

Probably fear of the unknown would be the best description of it.

Fear of the unknown of what they were going to ask us to do.

fear of the unknown as to whether or not I was capable of doing what they asked of me.

And I trained as hard as I could, but I just didn't know.