We as a culture could choose to shift our perspective on growth and evolution. A child comes into this world and grows simply because that is what they are born to do… Same as a caterpillar metamorphoses into a butterfly simply because that is its experience to grow through. The butterfly does not think back on its time as a caterpillar and feel that it was not enough then and that is why it became the butterfly, it simply enjoys the fact that it is now a butterfly, same as the caterpillar simply enjoyed being a caterpillar munching leaves and wiggling around.
It is a symptom of our perspective on growth and evolution (that teaches us before we can process where the belief is coming from) that we must be in some way inadequate or lacking in order to need to grow… Instead of because it’s just simply what we do.
The stagnation of the hotsh*t confidence mindset is a symptom from the other side of this same coin. It is a reaction to our cultural veiw that ‘if I need to become more than I must have not been enough to begin with’… the people who take on this overconfident way of being are actively resisting seeing themselves as not enough from the beginning.
There really is no need to go through the step of seeing our selves as not enough in order to grow and change into more or something else. We can choose to become more simply for the experience of becoming something else or more.
In fact, it inhibits the the process of growth and evolution to hold the belief that one must be not enough in some way in order to want to change, grow and/or evolve because then you have to fight with the cumbersome resistance and figure out a way of convincing yourself you are worth enough to be able to become more.
If we, as a society, saw growth and change as just a process of being a human Being then we would become so much more as a whole entire human race and individually much more easily and with much more pervasive enjoyment in our experience because of embracing the perspective that we change, evolve and grow into more just simply for the sake of it. Then there would be no need for the feelings of inadequacy or feeling not enough in order to spur embracing the experience and process of growth- same as there would be no need for some to spurn growth, change and evolving into more because they need to reactively reject the idea that they were not enough or inadequate to begin with.