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The question nobody at this level asks out loud
It's not a confidence problem. It's a structural one.
Leo Judkins, Founder, The iGaming LeaderThere's a question I hear on almost every suitability call.
Not asked directly. It comes out sideways.
It's in the long pause before answering, or in the thing they say right after they've described everything that's going wrong.
The question is: am I the right person for this?
Not "am I good enough." That's a different question, more generic, easier to dismiss.
This one is more specific.
It's the question you ask yourself in the car on the way home from a board meeting. At 2am when you've been lying there for an hour running through the same decision.
Am I actually the right person to be sitting in this chair?
I've heard it from people with 30 years of experience.
From founders who've built businesses from nothing.
From executives who are, by any external measure, doing everything right.
The more senior the person, the quieter it comes out.
What I've noticed is that the question gets louder inside your mind in direct proportion to how isolated you are.
When you're carrying decisions alone, with no one to tell you what they see from the outside, the internal voice fills the space.
It's not a confidence problem. It's a structural one.
And it doesn't go away by itself.
It goes away when you're finally in a room with people who look at what you're carrying and say: that's not a you problem. That's the job.