Impostor Syndrome doesn’t exist

Chengeer Lee
4 min readNov 1, 2023
AI-generated image created by the author

There is no such thing as Impostor Syndrome.

Notice this.

What you call Impostor Syndrome is what you use to describe a feeling that is caused by an entanglement of thoughts.

All these thoughts buzzing and interchanging so fast they seem like a solid white noise:

💭 I am not good enough

💭 What if they criticize me?

💭 What if they think I am dumb?

💭 What if they judge me?

💭 What if I say something that will hurt my career?

💭 I am a fraud

💭 I am not an expert

Write them all down.

For as long as they are in your head, it’s just noise.

Once you capture them on paper you create distance between you and your thoughts.

After you’ve done that coach yourself through writing.

Address every single thought separately.

→ Good enough for what exactly? Good enough for who?

→ What criticism are you afraid of? What is the worst thing they can say?

→ Why do you care what they say? Who are these people whose opinion impacts you so much?

--

--