Jennifer Lee, the co-director and screenwriter of Disney's Frozen and Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios, returned to her alma mater to deliver a commencement address entirely devoted to the theme of self-doubt. She accepted the speaking invitation precisely because her first reaction had been 'I'm not good enough to be the commencement speaker.' Lee traced her own battle with self-doubt from childhood bullying — 'I had the energy of the Tasmanian devil and the grace of a pile of pick-up sticks' — through high school, college, and into her film career. She described the lenses of self-doubt as 'nasty, thick and filthy, covered in swamp scum and mold, with a family of snails living on them.' The death of her college friend Jason MacConkey during their junior year at UNH temporarily knocked those lenses off: 'When you wake up so young with such loss, there is no doubt, only grief. And in that grief you see clearly.' The call to 'ban' self-doubt was simultaneously playful and serious — an acknowledgment that while self-doubt can't truly be eliminated, collectively naming it as the enemy is a powerful first step.