You did the work well enough to get pulled up. The reward was a quiet, private fear that someone is about to notice you don't belong. You reread Slack messages before sending them. You over-prepare for 1:1s with people who were your peers last month. You keep running the math on how long you can hold this together. In this episode, Rick and Neil take on imposter syndrome in leadership, and they don't agree on where it comes from. Neil makes the case that it's a cognitive distortion you can work through with deliberate reframing. Rick argues it's a rational response to being handed a role with no onboarding, no manual, and no definition of what good looks like. Drawing on Adam Grant's Hidden Potential, they test whether leadership confidence is something you find or something you build.