Dr. Shadé Zahrai

Yes.

It's growth with integrity, as we say.

Because if you had blind illusion, you wouldn't feel the doubt.

So you've got the integrity, the intellectual humility to know, okay, I haven't done this before.

Here are the gaps.

but you're embracing the discomfort that comes with growth.

You only experience that kind of imposter feeling when you're stretched.

You would never feel that if you know how to do everything and if you're fully comfortable.

Well, yes, we do need to acknowledge it's like 5% to 8% of the population that we're not talking about here.

Or a lack of self-awareness.

Exactly.

Exactly.

And a big part of that comes down to your level of agency.

Where do you fall on that scale?

So agency relates to what's called self-efficacy.

That's a personality trait, which is the belief that you can do what you need to do to achieve what you want to achieve.

I want to take you somewhere which relates to this, and it actually relates to the overarching theme of the book.

Jay, if I were to ask you, I mean, we've kind of primed it now, but if I were to ask you off the top of your head, what do you think the opposite of self-doubt is?

Yeah, so I primed you.

So it's absolutely self-trust.