This TED Talk features entrepreneur Mike Cannon Brooks, recorded live at TEDx Sydney, 2017.

So I've experienced a lot of success in my life. Over a decade ago, I started a business with my mate, straight out of uni, with my mate Scott.

Now, having no prior business experience and not really any grand plan, in fact our goals when we started were not to have to get a real job

and to not have to wear a suit to work every day.

Check and check.

Today, we have thousands of amazing employees,

and millions of people use our software around the planet,

and technically even outside the planet,

if you count those that are currently on their way to Mars.

So you'd think that I know what I'm doing every day when I go to work. Well, let me let you in on something.

Most days, I still feel like I often don't know what I'm doing.

I've felt that way for 15 years,

and I've since learned that that feeling is called imposter syndrome.

Have you ever felt out of your depth like a fraud and just kind of

guest slash bullshitted your way through the situation? Petrified that at any time someone was going to

call you on it. Well, I can think of many examples where I felt like this.

Interviewing our first HR manager, having never worked in a company that had an HR department,

terrified as I walked into the interview thinking, what am I going to ask this person?

Or attending board meetings in a t-shirt, surrounded by by suits and acronyms are flying around,

feeling like a five-year-old as I surreptitiously write them down in my notebook

so I can look them up on Wikipedia when I get home later.

Or in the early days when people would call up and ask for accounts payable,

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