Borrowed Belief Is Still Belief
On the days you cannot believe in the work, believe in the person who believes in you. It counts the same.
There is a strange accounting we do with confidence: we treat it as legitimate only if we generated it ourselves. A mentor’s conviction, a friend’s certainty, a colleague’s "you can do this" — we file these as pleasant noise rather than usable fuel.
But belief is fungible. The nervous system does not check the source. On the days your own supply runs dry, borrowing is not weakness; it is logistics.