Sloppy Seconds, Imposter Syndrome, and Fighting Your Way Through
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I hadn't heard from a friend who I knew was about to make a big move, so I sent him a text for an update. "Want me to be honest?" said he. "Always," said me. His reply? "I went through imposter syndrome this month, bad!" Clichés take a once-beautiful word or phrase and curb-stomps it into a mushy, nearly-transparent linguistic layer of saccharine sloppy seconds that we scrape off the pavement and shovel into people's ears anyway. Unfortunately, the term "imposter syndrome" has become one of these, turning the feeling of 'not being good enough' into a debilitating-yet-trendy disease inflicted upon the helpless...instead of something that effects almost all of us, especially those in creative work, and something we will always have to wrestle with, no matter how great we become.
Sloppy Seconds, Imposter Syndrome, and Fighting Your Way Through
Sloppy Seconds, Imposter Syndrome, and…
Sloppy Seconds, Imposter Syndrome, and Fighting Your Way Through
I hadn't heard from a friend who I knew was about to make a big move, so I sent him a text for an update. "Want me to be honest?" said he. "Always," said me. His reply? "I went through imposter syndrome this month, bad!" Clichés take a once-beautiful word or phrase and curb-stomps it into a mushy, nearly-transparent linguistic layer of saccharine sloppy seconds that we scrape off the pavement and shovel into people's ears anyway. Unfortunately, the term "imposter syndrome" has become one of these, turning the feeling of 'not being good enough' into a debilitating-yet-trendy disease inflicted upon the helpless...instead of something that effects almost all of us, especially those in creative work, and something we will always have to wrestle with, no matter how great we become.