By Dr. Tyler Scott, WCI Columnist
Writing my first article as a White Coat Investor columnist was scary.
The imposter syndrome of thinking I had anything meaningful to offer the WCI community was paralyzing as I attempted to type out those first few sentences. Instead of facing the discomfort of telling my dental career story, I sat on my bed watching my beloved Utah Utes lose another Rose Bowl while the Microsoft Word cursor blinked to the rhythm of the fourth-quarter clock in Pasadena and the journalistic insecurity in my mind.
Writing this second post is even scarier.
My first column went live the day before my wife, Megan, and I met up with the rest of the WCI team in Phoenix to set up for WCICON23 and three days before Josh Katzowitz put me on stage with Dr. Jim Dahle and a few other columnists to talk about our experiences in front of hundreds of conference attendees. I’ve never been afraid to speak in public or interact with people I don’t know, probably in large part because of my religious upbringing which gave me ample opportunity to speak in front of large groups regularly for 20-plus years.
While I wasn’t afraid to go on stage with one of my heroes and talk to hundreds of people, I was decidedly nervous about what you would think about what I said and the story I told on the blog just a few days earlier.
The comments sections of the internet are a dark and tangled briar full of noxious opinionated thorns and cutting literary barbs. Linguistically skilled, albeit myopic, trolls lurk there, waiting to overstate an author’s tertiary point or gaslight fellow commenters in the stench of their own poorly digested rhetoric and politically infused flatulence. I knew not whether my skin was tough enough or if my stomach was strong enough to withstand the inevitable lacerations and foul exchanges awaiting those foolish enough to lay out their vulnerabilities for the world to read. As I walked on stage that day to face a jury of my peers, I knew it…
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