Melinda French Gates
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It was always I'm smart enough.
I deserve to have this role of the chair, you know, co-chair of this foundation.
Because people kind of put that on you, right?
Or I put it on myself.
I never felt I knew enough.
It was this whole perfectionism thing.
I never knew enough.
I couldn't be enough.
You can't know everything.
Take global health.
My God, it's, you know, 20 different topics in different places in the world.
We're still learning.
We're learning the science.
But somehow I felt I never knew enough.
Now I walk into a room and go, hmm, I'm plenty smart enough to do this.
I may not know everything.
I'll ask some people here or I'll say.
I'll admit, oh, I haven't read that.