https://www.fastcompany.com/3022152/why-insecurity-may-be-the-key-to-success

Maybe everything you’ve been led to believe about being a successful business leader is wrong.

What if confidence is overrated? What if faking it until you make it actually does more harm than good?

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a professor of business psychology at University College London, thinks so. His new book, Confidence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt, isn’t just another touchy-feely book telling you that you are good enough, smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like you.

In fact, Confidence says the exact opposite.

“Although society places a great deal of importance on being confident, there are no genuine benefits except feeling good,” Chamorro-Premuzic writes. “In fact, lower confidence is key to gaining competence, which is the only effective strategy for gaining genuine confidence–confidence that is warranted by one’s actual competence.”