💡Even after writing 11 books and winning several prestigious awards, Maya Angelou couldn’t escape the nagging doubt that she hadn’t really earned her accomplishments: “I’ve run a game on everybody, and they are going to find me out.”

Albert Einstein, on the other hand, described himself as an “involuntary swindler” whose work didn’t deserve as much attention as it had received.

Have YOU ever told to yourself: “I’ve been lucky”, “I just bumped into the accurate person”, “I don’t think I will be able to get something like this again”, “I haven’t really done anything out of this world to deserve this”, “This must have been a mistake”…

The #ImpostorSyndrome shows a feeling of phoniness and unworthiness when it comes to achievements. It is as if you basically snuck upon whichever process you are going through and got away with it attributing your success to mere “luck” when the truth is that you are simply blind and can’t get to see all you have put into it and there is often no threshold of accomplishment that would put these feelings to rest 😕.

I wouldn’t have ever stopped to think about how hard it is to actually congratulate myself for what I had done or recognize the effort put into it until different events in my life started to shape an Impostor Syndrome so inconspicuously that I almost didn’t notice.

It’s kind of curious how we sabotage ourselves after years of merit, effort, learning processes and who knows all that comes along with each individual’s background but instead, we lean towards disbelief, doubtfulness and fear.

🌟There are many studies on how one can stop this feeling or at least get some relief from it, personally, I’m still working on it and sometimes struggle with it, but basically, I started believing in myself and that I was enough when I started believing in myself and that I was enough.