Rob Greenlee argues that creators sabotage themselves with shyness and imposter syndrome, fearing they'll be exposed as not good enough. Successful creators often have natural communication talent and big personalities, but boldness matters most. The cream rises to the top only if you actually go all in.
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be bold in what you're doing to unlock maybe hidden opportunities that maybe your shyness and your tendency to want to pull back from putting yourself out there gets in the way of your success, especially now. And this whole concept of imposter syndrome is something I've been hearing for years and years in the podcast medium, that people feel this, right? They feel like what they're doing is beyond what their what, what really their skills are, their capabilities are. And that's where that whole imposter syndrome is, that they oftentimes people feel like that they aren't worthy or they can't be doing what they're doing. And they're gonna be discovered one day and people are going to scorn them and give them a bad time and kick them out and say, sorry, you can't do this. You're not good enough. So that's always been the kind of feeling around this topic and And I know that this is a topic that, you know, gets talked about a little bit, but I think as we've progressed through the podcast and creator medium, we've just kind of blown through these topics to some degree. And the people that have, have really kind of been successful really don't have really, I guess, a lot of these problems, I guess, because we've moved toward this concept of the cream rises to the top is what I keep hearing all the time. So, a lot of people that maybe have a lot of natural talent, natural ability to create content are very fluid in what they do. They have big personalities. They're very quick-witted. They're very, you know, there's this kind of, I don't know if you wanna say God-given talent that some of these people have as a communicator. And that certainly is an advantage for anyone that actually has that.
