Ryan DeissCo-Founder & CEO, The Scalable Company

How to Beat Imposter Syndrome #Short

18 Oct 2021 · 1 min

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A short motivational monologue for entrepreneurs (YouTube Short) that names common imposter-syndrome thoughts—"you're not good enough," "you've just been lucky," and the fear of being "found out"—and offers three concise responses: these thoughts are false, you are not alone, and ignoring them doesn't help. The speaker instructs listeners to acknowledge and label the critic as a liar and then to "write a new" (positive) story about themselves.

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As entrepreneurs, the greatest lies we tell ourselves are the quiet lies we whisper in our own ears when we're all alone in the dark. So I want to ask you, what lies are you whispering in your own ears? If you're like most of the entrepreneurs I know, I'm betting the lies sound something like, you're not good enough, you've just been lucky. Or my favorite lie of all. Everyone is going to figure out that you don't know what you're doing, and they're all gonna laugh at you when you fail. If these are the voices that you're hearing in your head, I want you to know three things. Number one, it isn't true. None of it. It's all a lie. Number two, you're not alone. And number three, ignoring it won't make the voices go away. So instead, I want you to acknowledge the voice, and I want you to call it what it is. A critic and a liar. Once you've done that, you can start writing a news story. And this time, make it a fun.