How do you deal with self-doubt? 🤔

Having a strong support group is so important! For me, it also helps to - separate the success/failure of the project from my personal learning and growth - remind myself that we are all winging it :)

Here is what helped me: 1) surrounding yourself with the right people and thinking of things that are really important in life. It helps me to put the current problem in relation. e.g. I am healthy, I have a home, I have a family, friends, etc. so all is fine 2) But i always tell myself, just keep going.. the worst is to stop cause then you will never find out if it worked out or not. 3) if you don't believe in it, then no one will. You have to push through that. If you don't do it then you have lost already. It really makes a difference what you do in times of doubt and not when its easy. Cause the average person simply stops when they are in doubt.

Self-doubt gets a bad wrap, but I've come to value it. When I'm feeling doubts about myself or what I'm working on, my brain is bringing that up for a reason. I want to know what's going on. So I hear it out. Inquire into what is behind the self-doubt. What are the thoughts, feelings, senses associated with the self-doubt? Explore what comes up. There could be valuable information in there, information that can help me avoid future pitfalls and failure. Information that could help me see a better opportunity, a pivot, or an adjustment. Instead of treating self-doubt as something to fend off, overpower, or ignore, I treat it as an opportunity to see something I didn't see before.