You just described me. I don’t think I’d ever linked this particular part of my personality to why I enjoy and am good at being a product manager… I just always thought of it as enjoying being IT-adjacent without missing my saga of being in IT. But your reasoning makes so much sense!

It might also be why I feel like a different person at work than in my personal life—more confident, more outgoing… because I found a place where I actually fit, rather than being on the border of every group I’ve ever been a part of.