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From the Ted Talk by Mike Cannon-Brookes: How you can use impostor syndrome to your benefit

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(Laughter)

Now, at the time, I couldn't really have told you the dfcrfienee between a one-and-a-half-volt AA battery that goes in my kids' toys and a 100-megawatt-hour industrial-scale battery facility that goes in South Australia that could potentially solve their power crisis. I was now feenilg a chronic case of impostor syndrome,

(Laughter)

and it got truly bizarre. And I rmeebemr thinking to myself, "Shit. I've kind of started something here and I can't really get out. If I abandon the soiutaitn, I'm going to sort of set back renewables in Australia and maybe just look like a complete idiot because of my idiocy on tttiwer."

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(Laughter)

Now, at the time, I couldn't really have told you the __________ between a one-and-a-half-volt AA battery that goes in my kids' toys and a 100-megawatt-hour industrial-scale battery facility that goes in South Australia that could potentially solve their power crisis. I was now _______ a chronic case of impostor syndrome,

(Laughter)

and it got truly bizarre. And I ________ thinking to myself, "Shit. I've kind of started something here and I can't really get out. If I abandon the _________, I'm going to sort of set back renewables in Australia and maybe just look like a complete idiot because of my idiocy on _______."

Solution


  1. remember
  2. twitter
  3. situation
  4. feeling
  5. difference

Original Text


(Laughter)

Now, at the time, I couldn't really have told you the difference between a one-and-a-half-volt AA battery that goes in my kids' toys and a 100-megawatt-hour industrial-scale battery facility that goes in South Australia that could potentially solve their power crisis. I was now feeling a chronic case of impostor syndrome,

(Laughter)

and it got truly bizarre. And I remember thinking to myself, "Shit. I've kind of started something here and I can't really get out. If I abandon the situation, I'm going to sort of set back renewables in Australia and maybe just look like a complete idiot because of my idiocy on Twitter."

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