Victory on the Way

Imposter syndrome says authenticity doesn’t matter

Feeling like an imposter means you are doing something for the first time, something you don’t know will work, even if it has worked for some others. It means you are doing something original to you, something you genuinely care about.

Imposter syndrome is a real experience, but in a false reality. It says you don’t have the right to succed in something others have succeded, just because you have never done it before. It also says you don’t have the right to be you, and you don’t have results and proof to be entitled to be what you are. Even if you have done it before, what says you don’t have the right to keep going? What says, you don’t have the authority to be genuine and authentic?

Genuinness, authenticity doesn’t need to explain itself, it doesn’t have to prove itself with results. If you decide to be genorous and caring enough to pursue that which is genuinely you, even if it might not work, even if it hasn’t, or has worked for others, you owe no explanation or proof to anyone.

You need no qualification to be you. You want to write, make art, create something you haven’t before, engage in something meaningful to you—That’s great! Having something to pursue with all your heart is most of what you need to be successful. No one has the “ultimate answer,” or have “the” skills, everyone just knows some, learns some. Everyone learns on the way, not before. So just set the compass, and the ship will take care of going in the right direction.