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Seeking Confidence Through Success
The speaker reflects on lacking confidence and self-worth until working on Morning Brew, where they experienced a newfound sense of worthiness and confidence they had never felt before. This success in pitching investors and selling advertisers made them feel exceptionally skilled at storytelling and persuasion, which they found addicting due to the contrast with their earlier lack of confidence. The desire for more success in this area is seen as a psychological compensation for past feelings of inadequacy.