In my career, there's been a thousand times where I've met somebody who is deeply ambitious,

where they want to achieve great things, even just big things,

but they get constantly held back because they doubt themselves.

And the way that they doubt themselves, it just slows or stops all the progress that they're making in their ambition.

And the secret that nobody tells you is that there are very successful people.

I work with some of the most successful people in Silicon Valley, and they all have doubt, too.

The only difference is that they listen to that signal, the signal of doubt, and they know what to do with it rather than to let it stop them.

There's two places that doubt comes in. The first one is you're handed a project or you have a project that you want to start and you get excited about it.

You're thrilled, maybe a little, but you're like, ooh, let's do this project. And then

you put some ideas together, you sit with the ideas, and then doubt shows up. The second place

where doubt typically arises is then you put it in front of somebody. Maybe it's your boss,

or maybe it's an investor, or maybe it it's your husband and you put this idea out,

you make a presentation or you just talk about it and you see that they aren't completely

bought into the idea.

And then you have even more doubt.

And so these are the two places typically where the data arises.

One is just when you're thinking about living into it,

and the other one is when you get a reaction that you don't particularly want. And then those things

actually increase the doubt in your system. So in either case, what's happening is that you have

an ambition, which means you want to move something forward, and you're scared that there's going to be a feeling that arises in you that you don't want to feel and

the doubt is coming up as a way to protect you from that feeling and typically

there's two ways in which that happens it is a feeling from your past that you

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