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I'm an impostor!
4 years ago
I'm an impostor!
Impostor syndrome is very common. According to statistics, about 70% of people have felt like cheaters at least once in their lives.
Despite the fact that I went to art school for several years, graduated with honors, and then successfully entered the art university, in the first years I did not feel like a REAL artist. For example, I was ashamed to come to big, cool art stores, because "this is for real artists"!🙈
Then, after successfully completing my bachelor's degree and two failures in applying for a master's degree, when I finally managed to get there, in the first days I came to the university, afraid that I was about to be kicked out of classes, because it would turn out that I had entered by mistake! 🙈 🙈 🙈
And you know what calms me down?
Impostor syndrome affects ONLY successful people who have an inflated expectation of themselves. That is, if you have such feelings, then with a high probability you are actually ALREADY successful!!🙃 You just have to believe in yourself!
This is what helped me and is helping me right now:
* creating my inner support
* dealing with separation from parents
* making money on art, that is, on what I studied
* collecting positive feedback from customers
* a constant reminder of my successes and achievements
* overall positive attitude
Please share with me, have you ever experienced impostor syndrome? This can manifest itself not only in professional activities, but also in public life, family, relationships, and so on.
Impostor syndrome is very common. According to statistics, about 70% of people have felt like cheaters at least once in their lives.
Despite the fact that I went to art school for several years, graduated with honors, and then successfully entered the art university, in the first years I did not feel like a REAL artist. For example, I was ashamed to come to big, cool art stores, because "this is for real artists"!🙈
Then, after successfully completing my bachelor's degree and two failures in applying for a master's degree, when I finally managed to get there, in the first days I came to the university, afraid that I was about to be kicked out of classes, because it would turn out that I had entered by mistake! 🙈 🙈 🙈
And you know what calms me down?
Impostor syndrome affects ONLY successful people who have an inflated expectation of themselves. That is, if you have such feelings, then with a high probability you are actually ALREADY successful!!🙃 You just have to believe in yourself!
This is what helped me and is helping me right now:
* creating my inner support
* dealing with separation from parents
* making money on art, that is, on what I studied
* collecting positive feedback from customers
* a constant reminder of my successes and achievements
* overall positive attitude
Please share with me, have you ever experienced impostor syndrome? This can manifest itself not only in professional activities, but also in public life, family, relationships, and so on.
just look at my account, when i started it was "parody of a living being with little to no self esteem"
the only thing so far that made me feel better was getting insulted by a completely talentless person, i framed their commenton my userpage, as it makes me smile everytime i read it
By the way, I was prompted to such thoughts by Sandy Mann's book " Impostor Syndrome. How to stop devaluing your success and constantly prove to yourself and others that you are worthy."🌸
Though I do have friends to lean on, they... aren't around that much. I might be doing a little better if either I had more people to call friends, or if I just wasn't forced to go through it alone as frequently.