Andreas Vlach

“Your purpose is not the thing you do. It’s the thing that happens in others when you do what you do.”

– Dr. Caroline Leaf

I've started to see imposter syndrome not as a personal failing but as a natural response to the gap between our interior lives and our exterior presentations. We all contain multitudes—contradictions, uncertainties, half-formed thoughts, questions we're embarrassed to ask. But the versions of ourselves we present to the world are necessarily simpl... See more

The imposter syndrome whispers: "You don't know enough yet." But knowing enough is a moving target. There's always another book to read, another expert to consult, another angle to consider. At some point, the pursuit of readiness becomes a sophisticated form of procrastination. We convince ourselves we're being responsible, thorough, professional,... See more

But here's what I've started to understand about the "just ship" philosophy: it's not about ignoring these fears or powering through them with toxic positivity. It's about recognizing that our ideas—and by extension, ourselves—can only grow through contact with reality. They need friction. They need to bump up against other minds, other experiences... See more

Even well-functioning people with ADD often feel tremendously indecisive about taking new directions or making life changes. They have had so much difficulty in following through on decisions made in the past that they often become unable to trust themselves enough to move ahead at all. They also often have great difficulty saying no appropriately.

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If you’re part of the three to five percent, your view of the world is skewed, from just about every vantage point. Organization, follow-through, vision, clarity, communication—all just a little out of step with what you experience going on around you. You’re constantly thinking of what’s either behind or ahead of where you are right now, ping-pong

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