Don’t wait until you feel confident

- [Woman] I think this is so game changing to understand early that confidence doesn't actually come in an enduring way with experience. There was just a study done through KPMG that looked at confidence levels among professional women, and they looked at how many women early in their career would say they're confident, and then how many executive-level women, senior women, would say they feel confident in their work. And the difference between those two groups was only about 10% in terms of how many indicated they were confident. In other words, experience didn't change it, because when you get into a new senior role, sure, you're more confident about some things that you did a long time ago and you've been doing for a long time, but you have a new edge. And the voice of the inner critic and self doubt comes up again because that safety instinct is perceiving more emotional risk, no matter what the situation. And so…