You don’t have to be the best person in the room to be the one it needs.

Rooms do not need the highest-ranked person; they need whoever supplies the missing thing. Sometimes that is skill. More often it is someone willing to ask the obvious question, carry the boring part, or stay calm while others are not. Those jobs go unfilled in rooms full of talent.

At your next practice or group project, work out what is missing rather than where you rank. Then do that, even if it is unglamorous. Needed and best are different jobs, and only one is open to you today.