As a student, seemed like everyone was told to be more confident. Self-consciousness in HS; imposter syndrome in college In startup world, conversation is about over-confidence. Hubris of big ideas, need for compromise in the work place, assumed failure mode for decision making
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Different framing: • As a student, mental model was that our peers didn't believe in their thoughts and would under-share. • After dropping out, the mental model flipped to startup peers on average loving their own thoughts a bit too much and likely over-sharing.
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Having spoken to both of you (at least tangentially) about this, I think you're talking about slightly different things here
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I *think* the kind of confidence John is talking about is in the self-esteem, "put yourself out there!" sense, whereas Julia is talking about the "what probability does this have of being true?" sense of the word. The two are correlated but not the same thing
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If only we had two separate words for this...https://medium.com/@jbackus/dissecting-confidence-certainty-vs-motivation-to-act-1acdb3212b25 …
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