The people around you shape how confident you feel. Being near friends and family who value your advice reinforces your expertise, but surrounding yourself with people who've achieved vastly more, like a peer who sold a company for $100 million, can trigger imposter syndrome and self-doubt.
Everybody talks about like your net worth or your network is your net worth. Having my friends and family around me, I think, has also like kept me a little grounded, but then also like a little bit, it cures a little bit of that imposter syndrome because you're like, I know all of the, kind of like what you said, like, you know, I know all of these things. I'm giving advice. I can talk about business and all that stuff all day. So it's kind of like, huh, like, you know, I actually, you know, am an expert or knowledgeable in this space and it definitely does help. Whereas if I had, you know, people that were years and years and millions and millions of dollars or whatever above where I'm currently at and those were the people around me, I would probably feel it a little bit more just because I would be like, you know, like, holy shit, Jeff just sold his company for $100 million and oh, you know, what am I doing? Like, I shouldn't even be here type of thing. Yeah.
