{"id":5503,"date":"2025-11-14T18:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/confidence-doesnt-come-from-knowing-youll-get-it-right\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T18:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:16:16","slug":"confidence-doesnt-come-from-knowing-youll-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/confidence-doesnt-come-from-knowing-youll-get-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7395162672624943104>Confidence doesn\u2019t come from knowing you\u2019ll get it right.<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confidence doesn\u2019t come from knowing you\u2019ll get it right.<br \/>\nIt comes from trusting that you\u2019ll figure it out when things go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019ve made mistakes and recovered, you stop fearing failure.<\/p>\n<p>You start taking calculated risks, because you know you can recover. <\/p>\n<p>But if you\u2019re so afraid of things going wrong that you never try anything risky, you\u2019re slowing your own growth.<\/p>\n<p>A mentor once told me he made catastrophic mistakes at work every year. And they led to his success &#8211; he took on more scope than he could handle, made mistakes, then figured it out and stretched his capacity in the process. <\/p>\n<p>The best leaders I know don\u2019t get it right all the time.<br \/>\nThey\u2019ve learned to see mistakes as feedback, not failure.<br \/>\nTheir confidence comes from pushing their limits, getting it wrong, and learning fast.<\/p>\n<p>What risks are you avoiding that might be holding back your progress?<\/p>\n<p>Privilege check: Some people are given more latitude for making mistakes than others. Those from less privileged backgrounds can have even a single minor mistake dominate their performance reviews no matter how much other impact they delivered. Only you can assess your own risk safety in your context. But this post is about sharing my experience that we often overestimate risks, and underestimate the opportunity cost of stasis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confidence doesn\u2019t come from knowing you\u2019ll get it right. It comes from trusting that you\u2019ll figure it out when things go wrong. When you\u2019ve made mistakes and recovered, you stop fearing failure. You start taking calculated risks, because you know you can recover. But if you\u2019re so afraid of things going wrong that you never&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}