KPMG's US CEO Lynne Doughtie explains why feeling uncomfortable in your job is actually a good thing

• Business Insider UK spoke with Lynne Doughtie, Chairman and CEO of KPMG US at Davos about how taking risks and being confident allowed her to rise the ranks at the company.
• She said you shouldn't regret anything in a long career.

Read the full transcript below:

Lynne Doughtie: When you feel you're most uncomfortable, and maybe scared a little bit, and nervous, that’s actually great because that means you’re growing.

So I think it’s important to take some risk and I think it’s important to ensure you’re getting a variety of work experiences.

Careers are really long. At 13 years it may seem like, “If I don’t do this one thing, my career’s over.” No — it was just starting.

Even when you’re unsure, there are so many things that made you successful in other areas, that you can apply to new areas.

So being confident in your abilities to be successful in new areas, taking risks, I think it’s important.

I always think about this concept of confidence and how you get it. And it shouldn’t just come because you say: “I’m smart and I can do this,” I think it comes from action.

It’s actually just — jump in, do it, impress the heck out of yourself, that’s how you get confidence. And then as each new challenge and opportunity comes, you jump in again.

You do it. You say: “OK, I can do this.” And that’s how the confidence builds.

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