A short excerpt from Hal Elrod's YouTube talk 'Overcoming Imposter Syndrome' (uploaded by Hal Elrod). Hal acknowledges that imposter syndrome and self-doubt affect everyone, including highly successful people, and advocates affirming one’s worth. He recommends reframing admiration of others—not as a measure of lack—but as evidence of personal potential and possibility.
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We all have that imposter syndrome, that voice of self doubt. We all have that. We all have that. Everyone, even the most successful people in the world, they still deal with self doubt. And so for me personally and now I don't, you know, I've affirmed it so many times. It's part of my consciousness that I am just as worthy, just as deserving and just as capable as any other person of in achieving everything I want on earth. And one thing that's important to consider that helps contribute to that mindset.
Is we often create separation between us and people that we admire and that is disempowering. Right? You're literally disempowering yourself by well, I don't have what they have. So years ago I decided to flip that mindset and go I'm going to look at every other human being on the planet, particularly those I admire or I aspire to be more like as evidence of what's possible for me.