The Struggle To Overcome Self-Doubt And Feelings Of Imposter Syndrome
Walking The Line Of Humility, Honor, And Humbleness
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The Struggle To Overcome Self-Doubt And Feelings Of Imposter Syndrome
Walking The Line Of Humility, Honor, And Humbleness
I See it all the time.
I Hear it all the time.
People are Overcome with a Deep Struggle.
Feelings of Self-Doubt.
Feelings of Being an Imposter.
Gaining Traction, Momentum, and Success in Life, but Feeling Unworthy of It.
You’re Not Alone
I get it.
I Feel It Too.
All the Time.
I am Constantly Surrounded by Amazing Individuals.
Deeply Talented People who are Capable of So Much.
Perhaps it is a bit of a Blessing and a Curse to See Other's Potential so Vividly.
To See their Strengths where they Flourish with Seeming Ease.
To Feel the Deep Pains of My Own Weaknesses and Faults.
It is Incredibly Difficult to Overcome and Bear.
How can One Stand Next to Such Gleaming Lights of Potential?
So Bright that it Blinds You?
Then there is the Other Aspect of this.
When The Spotlight Is On You
When You "Do" Get Recognized.
When People Say Incredibly Nice Things about Your Work and Efforts.
When you get Recognized in Ways You May Never have Imagined.
The Questions begin to Fester in Your Mind...
Did I Really Deserve It?
Was I Truly the Best Option to Receive This?
What about All those Other Incredible Individuals Who Will Not get their Due Recognition?
People I "Know" are Absolutely Incredible?
Why Me?
It leaves you Feeling like Perhaps it was all a Mistake.
A Misunderstanding.
At any moment, without you realizing...
It will All Collapse around You.
Your 15 Minutes of Fame will be Used Up.
Someone will Pull the Rug Out from Under You.
Tell You that You Will Never be Worthy.
That is when the Laughing and Pointing Begins.
Perhaps someone will come along and Push you into the Mud.
Start Kicking You While You Lie on the Ground.
Laughing at how Easily Your Bones Break and how Pathetic Your Hard Work looks in Comparison to the Wonders of the Universe.
At least that is how I often Imagine it in My Head.
The Truth Of These Feelings
Perhaps, we are all just a "Bit" Too Tough on Ourselves.
Picking Up Boulders that Were Never Meant to be Ours.
Maybe the Hardest Truth to Accept is the Fact that We "All" Feel some Version of These Feelings.
When the Feelings Go Through Us, it Feels so Deeply Personal.
It could "Only" Ever Belong to Us.
However, it is only that Personal because it is coming from Inside of "You".
Yet, a similarly Deeply Personal version of those Feelings Course through All of Us.
Could theirs be Nearly as Bad as Our Own?
Yes.
Absolutely.
Without a Doubt in My Mind.
It is a Part of Being Human.
The Line We Must Learn To Walk
To Understand and Overcome these Emotions, there is a Line we must Learn to Walk.
It can be Difficult because there are Multiple Parts that Intertwine.
You have Humility, Honor, and Humbleness.
Humility and Humbleness are Similar in their Meaning.
It is about Holding an Opinion of Yourself that is in Relation to your Abilities.
Honor on the Other Hand is about Recognition or Worth and Achievement.
But here's the thing...
These are also a Two-Way Street.
What do I mean?
The Two-Way Street
Well, let's look at Humility and Humbleness First.
Our Tendency is to Hold an Opinion of Ourselves that is "Not" in Relation to Our Abilities.
Rather, we tend to Hold an Opinion of our Weaknesses in Relation to Others' Strengths.
However, True Humility and Humbleness are about "Both" holding a True Opinion of Our Own Abilities, while simultaneously holding a True Opinion of Others' Abilities.
It's a Two-Way Street.
With Honor, Our Tendency is to Recognize Others' Worth and Achievements.
That is Not Bad unless we Fail to Also Recognize "Our" Worth and Achievements as well.
Again, it's a Two-Way Street.
Understanding The Challenge We Face
Why do Self-Doubt and Imposter Syndrome begin to Take Over?
We are Holding Things Out of Proportion.
Our Weaknesses versus Other's Strengths.
Where We are on Our Journey versus Where Others are on Their Journey.
Seeing Others' Worth without Recognizing Our Own.
These are Not Fair Assessments.
Then, we Begin to Catastrophize these Unfair Assessments that We Create.
Instead of saying, "They're Further Along and I'm Not There Yet" we say, "I'll Never Get There."
Instead of saying, "We're Both Great in Different Ways" we say, "They are So Great that I'll Never be able to Compare."
The Final Factor
When the Unfair Assessments are mixed with the Catastrophizing, it is a Recipe to send us into Dis-Stress.
That Dis-Stress builds, which creates Anxiety, Depression, Fear, and so much more.
To Overcome Self-Doubt and Imposter Syndrome, we must Walk to Two-Way Line of Humility, Honor, and Humbleness.
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Now, in the Final Factor, I mentioned Dis-Stress.
This is where the Real Problems begin to Expand.
It is like a Mold.
It Corrupts More and More.
So, we have to Figure Out How to Overcome this Challenge.
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