And I'm proud to say I'm the dumbest person in the group.

I had the privilege of being the leader, but I constantly felt this sense of "not being good enough" when stacked against my colleagues. They all had hands-on experience with the platform. They all worked directly with clients every day. How am I remotely qualified to lead this group of talented people and help them develop, grow, and find career bliss?

Left to my devices, I could have easily spiralled into a depressive funk. Worst off, I could have been the embodiment of Steve Job's famous quote "A players hire A player, B players hire C players". Turtling into an introverted shell wouldn't do me any good, and definitely would have been incredibly detrimental to my team.

I had a very personal chat with my manager at the time, and he suggested one thing (Paraphrasing, as this was a while ago...):

Embrace the fact that you don't know everything. Be humbled by it.

The two key words are "Embrace" and "Humbled". I can run away from my own insecurities and fears. I can choose to put up a facade and carry on without learning. What I did was I chose to confront my insecurities, and I chose to be humbled by exposing them to my team. Looking back, I did fours things that a lot of leaders would be afraid to do, but to this day I do not regret doing them: