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
“Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made. What's a Sun-Dial in the Shade?”
— Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1750