Part of knowing yourself is knowing when you’re out of your depth and need to ask someone.

Accurate self-knowledge includes the edges. Knowing where your competence stops is not modesty, it is the same skill as knowing where it is strong, and people who can locate that boundary make fewer expensive mistakes than people who cannot. The hard part is social rather than intellectual, since asking feels like admitting something, especially somewhere everyone appears to be coping.

Name one thing you are currently faking your way through. Ask somebody about it this week, specifically, not as a general plea for help. Most people answer gladly, and nobody remembers the question a month later.