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Based on my CV, you might think my path to becoming a tenured faculty member was pretty smooth: master's degree, Ph.D., two postdocs, faculty position. The true story, however, is much more twisted. During my graduate work in physics, I was so out of my depth that, as an escape, I spent more time on online chess, political activism, and volunteering than on work. After my Ph.D., I almost left science for business consulting or politics. I ended up staying, but I changed fields. I published zero papers with my first postdoc adviser. In my second postdoc, I constantly felt inferior to a fellow researcher who seemed to come up with all the good ideas. All that time, I often thought that I was the only one struggling, and that everyone else was sailing smoothly along.