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What The Impostor Syndrome Looks Like As A Writer.
The perspective you have about yourself, matters.
“I have a feeling of discontent towards me and the worst thing is that it increases day by day. Sometimes I think, ‘At some point, people are going to realize that I’m a total fraud,’ and I don’t deserve anything I’ve accomplished over the last few years. “
This is an excerpt from an interview with Emma Watson in 2003, for Rookie magazine.
It’s not strange at all. Many people experience impostor syndrome without even knowing it. And many more feed thoughts about not feeling enough.
“Are you a writer?”. Surely you’ve heard this question. And it seems that it’s harder to solve it the less experience you think you have.
Basically, the impostor syndrome consists of not believing that you are capable of recognizing your achievements and attributing them instead to a stroke of luck. If you don’t stop this in time, it can become an inexhaustible source of self-sabotage as you will constantly live in fear of being “discovered”. You see yourself as a fraud.
