VIR-III-0007
“I've been getting credit for work that wasn't fully mine.”
Owning your wins means being accurate about them, not inflating them. Letting unearned credit accumulate is a slow erosion of the truth. It also means the wins you do earn carry less weight, because you won't fully believe them yourself.
Your Practice
The next time you're in a context where credit is being given, name the contribution clearly, yours and theirs. You don't need to make a production of it. Just be accurate. Accuracy is the practice.
The Architects
“A man should say, I am not concerned that I have no place, I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.”
Confucius, Analects, Book IV, ch. 14 (James Legge translation)