Molly Graham

I think it was unclear for a while if I was like ever going to feel competent, you know, and I was just talking to someone else.

who just did this.

And she was like, I'm three months into it.

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

And I still feel like I only know what I'm doing 30% of the time.

And I was like, you're on track, like, give it give it three more months.

And so I bought in.

And you might have a moment where you feel competent, because that's what happened to me, like six months into it, I think it was like six might have been nine.

I was like, okay, let's see.

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

I flew home from Taiwan, where I had been working with hardware manufacturers, and I drew the hardware layout for a mobile phone on a whiteboard.

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

For my boss.

Like I was sitting in rooms with just –

And I was basically explaining to him why something that he wanted to have happen couldn't happen.

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

But I explained it to him like very precisely.

And I remember him looking at me being like, whoa, dude.

I felt like an idiot.

And me sort of having this feeling of like, oh, I actually know things.