That voice saying you can’t? Listen to its accent. It usually belongs to someone else.

Self-doubt often arrives in borrowed phrasing. The exact words usually came from somewhere: a teacher, a relative, a comment made years ago and repeated until it sounded like your own conclusion. Recognizing the source does not delete it, but it does downgrade it from fact to opinion.

Next time the voice starts up, listen to how it is worded rather than to what it claims. Ask whose sentence that actually is. Then decide whether that person, on that day, was in any position to be right about you.