Axios CEO Jim VandeHei is here with advice on how to use your insecurities to motivate you. For a video version of this column (and to see what Jim looked like as a 20-year-old punk), click here. I wasn't a fast, early adopter of AI beyond basic search on ChatGPT, Jim writes, for the same reason many of you have balked at these muscular new tools: I was insecure about my ability to use it with any sophistication.
- My internal dialogue: I'm too old, too non-technical, too much of a words guy to make it work.
- Classic imposter moment: Who am I to think I can do this?
Why it matters: But I used my insecurity as a powerful motivator, much like I did in my early media career when I feared everyone in D.C. was better read, better educated, better connected than I was. (Spoiler: They were!)
