PM admits she has moments of self-doubt Prime Minister Julia Gillard admits she has moments of self-doubt but says that to display them publicly would be dangerous, because the cultural image of leadership equates self-doubt with weakness. Ms Gillard says she can't afford to wander around declaring she's anxious and she doesn't know, and in any case that isn't who she really is. But she's declined to reveal just what issues have caused her moments of self-doubt. Ms Gillard's moment of public introspection emerged at the tail end of ABC television's Q and A program on Monday night in which she faced an audience of 280 high school students. The reason it's dangerous for me to answer is we have this kind of cultural image of leadership that self-doubt equal weakness and we don't like to sense weakness. And so we don't exhibit weakness and I don't exhibit weakness," she said. Everybody had moments of self-doubt, Ms Gillard said. "To not feel that wouldn't be human and so I feel that too," she said, adding that the best way to maintain resilience in time of stress was to to be very clear about who you are, what you are trying to do and why you are trying to do it. The other thing was to have some really good mates you could turn to in times of difficulty. "And I am blessed with some fantastic friends and a wonderful and very supportive family," she said. The prime minister answered a succession of questions on a range of topics - women in politics, reducing the voting age, the economy, taxation, the Middle East and nuclear weapons. But it was on schools and the government's Gonski education reforms that she seemed at her most fluent, prompting one of the numerous mostly positive tweeters to observe: as PM she makes a very good education minister. Then there was Tom Waterhouse. She said as someone who watched sport, live sporting odds drove her absolutely nuts. Ms Gillard said the government had moved to implement a code to limit on-screen betting promotion and to end the confusion of who was a commentator and who was a betting personality. "I am not going to use any names," she said, but acknowledged that the name she wasn't mentioning was Waterhouse. Ms Gillard said Tom Waterhouse had a big and successful betting business and was the very visible face of this issue. But other well-known sporting commentators also discussed betting odds. "It's a broader problem than one individual, though in public discourse one individual has become the face of it," she said.