Category: self doubt

The Courtroom of the Self

On a recent livestream, “America’s Labor Crisis,” co-host Mike Rowe commented, “The evidence demands a verdict.” He was discussing the workforce, but his words, sharp and hard as flint, hit me on a different level. What verdict does the evidence of our own lives yield? The day winds down, and some of us land in…


Self-Doubt Can Have Its Benefits

In “Once an Eagle,” his novel about an American soldier, Anton Myrer quotes Army Gen. Joseph Stilwell: “If a man has enough character to be a good commander, does he ever doubt himself? He should not. In my case, I doubt myself. Therefore, I am in all probability not a good commander.” That question and…


How to Deal With Self-Doubt

Any description of human behavior should have something to say about the complicated relationship we have with our emotions. I’m someone who longs to be rational and well-reasoned in most of what I do, but upon reflection, I can see how frequently my life is, instead, steered by emotion. This shouldn’t come as a surprise:…