Getting to step into significantly larger shoes—whether literally or just in our ordinary lives—can have two equally dangerous effects on our psyches. We can shrink in self-doubt from what we’re truly capable of. Or we can inhabit our new power boldly, but forget the humble size we began as. Because, at some point in our lives, or maybe two, or three, most of us get the chance to be “the big one” relative to someone else. We just find ourselves there, whether it’s on the playground or the break room or just being around our kids. For a lot of people, it can be overwhelming, as it was for me.
