What if I told you that I felt like a failure even after selling Twitch for a billion dollars?
This is for anyone experiencing impostor syndrome:
What if I told you that I felt like a failure even after selling Twitch for a billion dollars? This is for anyone experiencing impostor syndrome:
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A friend of mine is a big Instagram influencer in Mexico (nearly a million followers and deals with lots of brands). As far as I can tell, he is a happy man. He freely admits that he is selling a fake persona, and has achieved peace with it. I asked him if he could do something interesting with his account (from activism to conceptual art). His res... See more
I also shared my own struggles with impostor syndrome and how I learned to trick myself to feel—and actually to become—more confident. I referred to this phenomenon as “fake it till you become it.” (By the way, in the talk, that part about my own struggles was almost entirely unplanned and unscripted, because I didn’t think I had the audacity to di
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