- Working title
- Pretending I Still Know What I Am Doing
- Format
- Five Things
- Category
- Confidence
- Subject tags
- Confidence, Work Confidence, Embarrassment
- Core thought
- A lot of adult competence is performance, memory and hoping nobody asks the one question you cannot answer.
- Real-world trigger
- Starting a task, project or conversation where you should know more than you currently do.
- Specific detail to use
- A browser full of tabs open to basic instructions while the person acts as if they are checking something advanced.
- Discomfort or tension
- The tension is the gap between outward confidence and private doubt.
- Why it fits I Said
- It fits I Said because it is a socially unsaid thought about competence, shame and keeping going.
- Output direction
- Five separate moments of mild impostor feeling, kept direct rather than comic.