<story><title>Healthy Self-Doubt</title><url>https://nerdygirl.com/2020/07/02/healthy-self-doubt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TopHand</author><text>For most of my career I worked with a small group (20 to 30) group of highly educated and mostly brilliant people. I barely graduated high school. As the years passed and we all began to age, I realized that the amount of knowledge we all had obtained during our tenure was an irreplaceable resource for the company. In order to help the younger incoming people bypass this learning curve I set up a wiki where group members could publish articles that they thought may help others not to have to re-invent the wheel. What I discovered was that most of these brilliant people would not share a lot of their knowledge. I often wondered if even these brilliant people suffered imposter syndrome and that they didn&amp;#x27;t share this knowledge for fear they would be found out.&lt;p&gt;What I did learn from the most brilliant members of the group was to never be afraid to ask a question, even if it sounded ignorant. Never be afraid to expose a gap in your knowledge. If you don&amp;#x27;t, your missing an opportunity to increase your learning.</text></comment>
<story><title>Healthy Self-Doubt</title><url>https://nerdygirl.com/2020/07/02/healthy-self-doubt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wilsocr88</author><text>I wonder how much of this ends up being from gender-based socialization. Maybe this individual got just the right balance of encouragement and luck in her upbringing to build a healthy balance of self-confidence in her abilities and self-doubt to encourage her to keep learning.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, a ton of men are insecure and scared, but they&amp;#x27;re treated as &amp;quot;the default choice,&amp;quot; so in many cases they may not receive that formative boost of self-confidence. Thus, we get grown men convinced that they don&amp;#x27;t belong in their own careers.</text></comment>