Impostor syndrome
๐๐๐ซ๐'๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ง๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐๐๐ก๐ข๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐๐ง๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐จ๐ฑ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐
The more you achieve, the more you feel like you're fooling everyone.
๐๐ฉ๐บ? Because your standards rise faster than your self-perception.
Last year's impossible goal becomes this year's minimum expectation.
Your brain focuses on the gap between where you are and where you think you should be, not how far you've actually come.
๐๐ก๐ฒ ๐
๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ญ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฏ
Most professionals have:
โ Clear job descriptions ๐
โ Established career paths ๐ค๏ธ
โ Industry benchmarks ๐
โ Regular performance reviews โ
Founders have:
โ Making it up as they go ๐คทโโ๏ธ
โ No roadmap for their journey ๐บ๏ธ
โ Constantly changing success metrics ๐
โ Everyone looking to them for answers ๐
You're literally doing things that have never been done before. Of course you feel like you don't know what you're doing; nobody does.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ง ๐๐ข๐๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฒ๐ง๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐
Impostor syndrome means you have ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด.
It means you care about doing ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ.
It means you're pushing ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ your comfort zone.
The people who never feel like impostors? They're usually not growing.
๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ญ
๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง: "I don't know what I'm doing"
๐ฏ๐๐: "I'm learning as I build something unprecedented"
๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง: "They're going to find out I'm a fraud"
๐ฏ๐๐: "I'm being transparent about what I don't know yet"
๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง: "I don't deserve this success"
๐ฏ๐๐: "I earned this through courage and persistence"
๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง: "Everyone else has it figured out"
๐ฏ๐๐: "Everyone else is also making it up as they go"
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