Blumenthal: Successful leaders project confidence and fake it through imposter syndrome
Rachel Blumenthal · 20VC: Why Fundraising Is Like Dating and How to Play The Game Successfully & How To Increase The Flexibility of Your Burn When Growth is Ambiguous with Rachel Blumenthal, Founder & CEO @ Rockets of Awesome · Jul 13, 2018 · at 27:36
Rachel Blumenthal, founder and CEO of Rockets of Awesome, offers advice to first-time entrepreneurs on overcoming self-doubt.
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“The reality is that we all have imposter syndrome, right? We all think that we're not good enough or we're not there yet, but the ones that succeed are the ones that fake it. We just fake it every single day and we put on the air of confidence, whether we're Confident you're not. People believe that air of confidence, and I think that the ability to fake it, and the ability to have a conviction, and be focused, and to, you know, if it's faking confidence, if it's real confidence, the ability to do that enables us to do things that we never could have imagined were possible.”
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