What You're About to Map

Achievement Internalisation
Success feels like timing or luck rather than what you contributed.

Perfectionism Tendencies
Nothing ever meets the bar. You're overly hard on yourself.

Peer Comparison
You're measuring yourself against everyone else in the room.
Where This Comes From
In 2022 I interviewed 16 UK CEOs and founders about confidence, and about how outward achievement and inner certainty drift apart.
The three patterns in this scorecard are the shapes that gap most often takes. They come from that research, and from coaching senior leaders across law, finance, government, healthcare and the arts.

