Thanks for writing this. It’s so bizarre that the community is full of such confidence and talent yet such insecurity and fear at the same time. It reminds me of my favorite (favorite, favorite) passage from Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘Big Magic’:

“People convince themselves that they have been robbed, when they have not, in fact, been robbed. Such thinking comes from a wretched allegiance to the notion of scarcity, from the belief that the world is a place of dearth, and that there will never be enough of anything to go around. The motto of this mentality is, ‘Somebody else got mine.’”