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Big mistake. A lot of people don't realize which is, if you do really well and you don't believe in yourself, you don't become secure.
A lot of people think that becoming secure is about being successful. That's not the case. If you're really successful, you don't end up with security; you end up with impostor syndrome. So I went to Tufts for medical school, and I did my residency training at Harvard. And what I saw is that the more successful you become, that increases the rate of impostor syndrome. There's way more impostor syndrome at Harvard than there is at the University of Texas. There's way more impostor syndrome at a place like Goldman Sachs than there is at Bank of America. So lots of success actually creates this idea that everyone else is so much better than me. So we see actually lots of success leads to impostor syndrome.
Confidence doesn't come from success; it comes from surviving failure. It's also far more internal, so it's not something that anyone else gives you. It's like, when you believe in yourself, then you're confident. And then the beautiful thing is that once you believe in yourself, then other people can think whatever they want to about you.