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Have you ever met someone who knows exactly what to do 100% of the time?
Didn’t think so.

Not even CEOs. Not even the “top leaders.” Not even the people on stage telling you they have the answers.
Everyone wings it.
Some are just louder and more confident while they do it.

Yet somehow you think you need to know more, prepare more, study more, take one more course, earn one more degree, grab one more certification—just to feel “ready.”

But “more” never ends.
There’s always someone telling you:

• “Read this book.”
• “Take that program.”
• “Get that credential.”
  And once you finish those?
  They’ll tell you to get more.

The truth is: honesty is a kind of faith people rarely practice in the corporate world.

Because admitting that everyone is improvising?
That everyone is figuring things out as they go?
That requires vulnerability—and confidence.

Belief Comes Before Proof

You need to believe in yourself before expecting anyone else to believe in you.
No title, no degree, no company, no leader—none of them can give you the confidence you refuse to give yourself.

There was a young man who earned multiple degrees. On paper, he was impressive. But in practice, he felt lost.
Not because he lacked intelligence—far from it.
But because no class had ever shown him how ideas connect to real-world problems.

School teaches theories.
Life demands connections.
And if no one shows you how A links to B, you’ll spend your life waiting for someone else to draw the map.

But here’s the thing:
The people you’re waiting on to “explain everything” are also winging it.
They aren’t successful because they mastered every detail.
They’re successful because they stopped waiting for others to validate them.

They believed in themselves—first.
And that gave others permission to believe in them too.

The Moment Everything Changed

One day, this young man paused.
He reevaluated his process, his activities, his network, his knowledge—everything.
And he realized something important:

School teaches you information.
Life teaches you introspection.
Confidence comes from the latter.

Somehow, school becomes the beginning of a fearful journey, not because the information is wrong—but because our confidence takes a hit when we’re taught that expertise must come from outside ourselves.

But when he looked around at people who paved the way before him, something clicked.

Many didn’t have degrees.
Many didn’t have credentials.

But they did have:

• confidence,
• grit,
• self-trust,
• and the willingness to wing it until they figured it out.

Your Wake-Up Call

If you’re reading this, take it seriously:

Stop asking others to believe in you more than you believe in yourself.
Stop assuming everyone else has a blueprint you’re somehow missing.
Stop thinking you’re behind because you can’t see their doubts.

No one has it all figured out.
Everyone is improvising.
Everyone is winging it—including the people you admire most.

So let this be your moment.
Give yourself permission to trust your abilities, your intuition, and your path.
Confidence isn’t something you earn—it’s something you decide.

Believe in yourself first.
The world will follow.