If they belong, so do you. Period. Speaker: Barack Obama #impostersyndrome #selfworth #youbelong

"Do not let people think you do not belong." Once you sit at these tables with folks with fancy titles and you talk to them and you go, "Oh, they ain't all that." This idea that somehow they are so special, they're so smart, they're so sophisticated, not really. They've been exposed. They've been given the confidence of feeling like they belong. But if you sit down and talk to them, turns out, "Hmm, that's my point." And the benefit for Michelle and me because we came up and at each stage, you know, you go to Harvard and wow, it's Harvard. And then you find out, "Oh, Harvard's full of some fools "and people that you would not put in charge of anything." But they're there and there's some really amazing, brilliant people too. And then you go to the U.S. Senate. Everybody's represented smart people and dumb people, good people and bad people. Now suddenly you're meeting at the group of, you know, seven world leaders are all in a room where the United Nations, oh, same thing. Turns out that there's some really smart, amazing world leaders and there's some fools running countries.