Is imposter syndrome so prevalent because so many of us try to be what we are not and instinctively, unconsciously know we will never be?
I used to have imposter syndrome when I was doing something that wasn’t truly me. When I stopped doing that and began to do what I truly am, it disappeared and never came back, despite it being harder and more challenging than what I was doing before.
The radical honesty of understanding who we are and who we’re not as well as what we are and what we are not capable of is essential. The contemporary fetish of believing that we are all capable of being anybody we choose to be and can achieve anything we want is simply delusional and harmful to our mental health.