Molly Graham

you basically buy this like incredible learning curve about yourself and about the world.

And I remember this conversation with a friend of mine where he said,

Like, you've proven you're really good in HR.

And so I bought in.

I was like, okay, let's see.

And these were like really big, like complicated company wide projects.

And I went to work on this mobile phone project, knowing absolutely nothing about phones or the mobile industry or anything.

Why don't you go see how actually good you are?

And, and it was this like, oh, like, I'm gonna go figure out if I can do this.

And I immediately just felt like the dumbest person in the entire world.

Like I was sitting in rooms with just

And this was the moment, by the way, when the person, the guy that was trying to hire me and get me to come work on the phone, drew the stairs for me.

Oh, my God, the smartest people asking the stupidest questions, you know, and I felt embarrassed.

And he was like, basically it was him being like, you can be boring and stay on these stupid stairs or you can jump off a cliff with me.

I felt like an idiot.

I felt like I didn't know what I was doing for really six to nine months.

But slowly, I learned.

So it was like that was his pitch.

And he was like, the most interesting careers are built by people that are willing to throw themselves into something that they might not be good at, that they might not be successful at.

I mean, I learned so much.