Molly Graham

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

But slowly I learned.

And that was the moment of what, you know, so for me with like with jumping off cliffs or the J curve, like you basically fall, right?

I mean, I learned so much.

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.

you hit the bottom, and then you start to climb out.

And that feeling of like, oh, I'm someone different than I was six months ago, because I have all these skills and all this knowledge.

who just did this, and she was like, I'm three months into it, 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.

But it also like, I have a different level of confidence all of a sudden, like I can do things that I didn't know I could do.

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.

And for me, that phone project, which I was then on for three years, which by the way, was a giant failure.

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.

So like,

Yeah, the project was a failure, but it was not a failure for me.

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

Like, I learned so much about myself, good and bad.

But I explained it to him like very precisely.

But the most important thing it taught me was that I love that kind of learning and that I really, I now say, like, I only take jobs that I'm highly, highly unqualified for.

And I remember him looking at me being like, whoa, dude, and me sort of having this feeling of like, oh, I actually know things.