📌 Do you sometimes feel that you are the least qualified people in the room? You are there ‘accidently’ and people will notice soon that you do not belong there… You feel like a fraud and you’ll be ashamed once it is discovered…
📌Believe me YOU ARE NOT ALONE…
Many people in professional life feels the same… Due to high set expectations and definitions of titles, positions and qualifications that are put to welcome you to a job position, an organization and sometimes to a community.
And it makes us surrounded by amazing successful but unhappy people… People wo are anxious… Including ourselves…
I read about an anecdote by #NeilGaiman today sharing his #impostersyndrome experience.
“Some years ago, I was lucky enough invited to a gathering of great and good people: artists and scientists, writers and discoverers of things. And I felt that at any moment they would realise that I didn’t qualify to be there, among these people who had really done things.
On my second or third night there, I was standing at the back of the hall, while a musical entertainment happened, and I started talking to a very nice, polite, elderly gentleman about several things, including our shared first name*. And then he pointed to the hall of people, and said words to the effect of, “I just look at all these people, and I think, what the heck am I doing here? They’ve made amazing things. I just went where I was sent.”
And I said, “Yes. But you were the first man on the moon. I think that counts for something.”
And I felt a bit better. Because if Neil Armstrong felt like an imposter, maybe everyone did. Maybe there weren’t any grown-ups, only people who had worked hard and also got lucky and were slightly out of their depth, all of us doing the best job we could, which is all we can really hope for.”
📌 So believe me… YOU DESERVE TO BE WHERE YOU ARE and NO-ONE IS ACTUALLY DIFFERENT THAN YOU IN THAT ROOM…