Don’t let imposter syndrome stop you from being your best self

Today, I want to talk about this idea of the best version of ourselves.

I was having a conversation with this individual. He had reached out because he saw I had a journey with social media content creation.

And he was thinking about starting his own social media presence for business he wanted to run on the side/part-time and he wanted to talk about what it’s like you know to post on Facebook, LinkedIn, maybe even YouTube consistently.

And one of the things he kept saying, while I was trying to encourage him to try, he said, you know, I don’t know if I’m that guy you know what I mean? Like I’m a nobody, I haven’t done anything. Does it make sense for a guy like me to post?

I think this is one of the interesting things we have to realize with the democratization of the internet, the existing pillars and thought processes we had from the 1980s and 1990s don’t apply as much.

When you think of the biggest social media starts, Mr. Beast, Emma Chamberlain, or whoever you follow, it’s not like they had the credentials from the beginning to become a big YouTuber.

They weren’t credentialed individuals, validated by society when they first started.

They started with 0 subscribers just like everybody. “The credibility or validation” that they have now comes from years and years of posting and building an audience.

I think there’s inferiority complex people have, that oh I’m not anybody. I shouldn’t be pursuing content creation unless I am somebody.

I think a lot of times people talk about the fear of failure, of making mistakes and losing everything.

But it’s interesting too, I think a lot of people suffer from fear of success, fear of a greater positive image of themselves.

I think about some of my friends who have been through some traumas in their life and you know could be characterized, as say “crazy” or “a lot to handle”.

I speak to them sometimes and it’s the same conversation.

They’ll interact with me, and be like, Oh, I’ll never be calm and happy, and put together, I’ll always be crazy.

And I’m like you can.

It takes times, it takes work. For them, it might take therapy, it might take coaching. It might take reading an emotional intelligence book. It might take addressing things you haven’t wanted to from the past.

But you can become a calm and happier person.

And whatever it is for you, you can become that better version of yourself.