It took me four years longer than my peers, and I convinced someone, my angel advisor, Susan Fiske, to take me on, and so I ended up at Princeton, and I was like, I am not supposed to be here.
I am an impostor.
And the night before my first-year talk, and the first-year talk at Princeton is a 20-minute talk to 20 people.
That's it.
I was so afraid of being found out the next day that I called her and said, "I'm quitting." She was like, "You are not quitting, because I took a gamble on you, and you're staying.
You're going to stay, and this is what you're going to do.
You are going to fake it.
You're going to do every talk that you ever get asked to do.
You're just going to do it and do it and do it, even if you're terrified and just paralyzed and having an out-of-body experience, until you have this moment where you say, 'Oh my gosh, I'm doing it.
Like, I have become this.