Rupi Kaur talks with Lewis Howes about her rise to fame and the imposter syndrome that followed her success as a multiple New York Times bestselling author. She opens up about struggling with self-doubt despite her massive achievements.
Did you feel like you were prepared for the pressure or the success or the fame or the audiences that came to you so early?
Absolutely not.
Really?
No, not at all. At that point, I still wouldn't refuse to call myself an author. It wasn't until book three that I accepted that I was an author.
But you're a multiple New York Times bestseller at that point.
Yeah. And I sold millions of books. But I had so much imposter syndrome. Really so much. Because in my mind, I was like, this is weird. This is a book that I made in my living room while in college, living with my best friend. Like, cutting out the poems and putting them in order on the floor and being like. It just felt like such a homemade project.
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