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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As far as I can tell, the only way to make everyone happy is to operate stoically and only take conservative risks. Strong social incentive to be humble even if it means your strengths go unnoticed or under-noticed. Not worth it!
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Replying to @backus
This is basically the exact opposite of my experience with the startup world!
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Replying to @juliagalef
Really? Would love to hear more. FWIW, I didn't mean that startup founders aren't self-conscious / uncertain as well. Just saying I don't see any culture of worrying about that.
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I meant it's common wisdom among founders that you should be irrationally overconfident in yourself and your projects. (When I probe deeper, they often end up modifying that into a more nuanced position. But I think it's fair to call the glib first take the common wisdom)
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Replying to @juliagalef
Yeah, in terms of actually understanding the odds I think that is usually true when you dig deeper
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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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Replying to @backus @juliagalef
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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