Stop trying to look experienced and become useful.

Performing expertise and having it pull in opposite directions. The energy spent looking seasoned goes into managing impressions, hiding gaps, and avoiding the questions that would expose you, and every one of those moves keeps you from the thing that would actually make you good. Usefulness is easier to aim at because it has an external test. Either the problem moved or it did not.

Notice where you are protecting an image this week, especially in the moments you almost asked a question and did not. Trade one of those moments for the question. Then choose the task judged by whether it worked rather than by how it made you appear.