Most law students preparing for pupillage interviews think the problem is their answers. It isn’t. The real problem is where their attention is — and in this episode, Chelsea Brooke-Ward makes the case that the single most career-limiting habit at the Bar has nothing to do with your legal knowledge.

It’s this: the need to be approved of. The compulsion to manage what other people think. The ancient, primal fear of being rejected from the pack.

Drawing on evolutionary psychology, the wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt, the philosophy of enoughness, and her own experience inside the profession, Chelsea unpacks why the fear of rejection is hardwired — and why the threat it points to is not real. This episode is for every law student who has ever walked out of a chambers day replaying every word they said, hedged an interview answer to please the panel, or quietly wondered whether they are enough.

The answer is yes. It always has been. And this episode is about learning to stop looking for someone else to confirm it.

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