Molly Graham

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?

When someone offers me a job I know I can do, I'm like, that sounds boring to me.

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

Yeah.

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.

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

You know, someone posted this quote.

They posted a statement when my TED Talk got posted.

So like-

And the person said, you know, people think that you have to be confident to act.

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

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

And the truth is confidence comes because of action.

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.

You don't have to be confident in order to act.

Or if you wait for confidence, like you just might be waiting a really long time.

But for me, like actually one of my greatest strengths is being kind of an idiot and asking a lot of dumb questions and being able – you can put me in literally any situation in almost any business in the world and I will be able to learn it.

When someone offers me a job I know I can do, I'm like, that sounds boring to me.