Intern: "Everyone on rounds knows more than me." Me: "Name one thing I said this morning you couldn't have." Intern: "You said the lesion was left MCA." Me: "He was weak on the right and couldn't get a word out." Intern: "...oh." Me: "That's the whole trick. We're just louder about the obvious." Imposter syndrome in residency is mostly a volume problem, not a knowledge problem. Right-sided weakness with expressive aphasia localises to the left hemisphere — the language-dominant side in the overwhelming majority of people — in left middle cerebral artery territory. The intern had the entire localisation before anyone said it out loud. Send this to the intern who thinks everyone else was born knowing. Send this to the intern who thinks everyone else was born knowing.