Lee shared how a fellow student at Columbia film school, Phil Johnston — an Emmy-award-winning journalist who would later co-write Wreck-it Ralph with her — repeatedly told her she was good enough to work with. She was always surprised that 'someone so good would want to work with me.' One day, Johnston stopped her and made her promise something that would change her life: to leave her insecurity out of her professional work. It was a distinction that proved transformative — the insight that personal insecurities are one thing, but letting them infect your creative output is a separate, avoidable choice. Six months after making that promise, Lee had two film options and her first paycheck as a screenwriter. A year later, she and Johnston were writing Wreck-it Ralph together. And then came Frozen. She stood before the graduates as proof that the promise works: 'I'm a person so far from perfect that there isn't even a subway line to perfect anywhere near me... maybe I am enough.'