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# 15 Crushing Imposter Syndrome: Your Path to Unleashing Potential Art of Life Podcast
Episode 1512th October 2023 • Art of Life • Kanika
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Delve deep into the inner workings of Imposter Syndrome. In this segment, we explore the roots of this self-doubt and how it can manifest in our lives. Discover whether it's your inner voice or external influences fueling those nagging doubts and gain a deeper understanding of why this phenomenon affects so many of us. 

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00:00:00 - Intro 

00:00:33 - What is Imposter Syndrome? 

00:01:50 - Celebrities with Imposter Syndrome 

00:03:31 - Understanding Imposter Syndrome 

00:05:52 - How to deal with Imposter Syndrome 

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Hi, and welcome to the Art of Life podcast.

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I'm Kanika.

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I am your host.

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And in this podcast, we talk about our everyday life and making it better.

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Just simple strategies, simple mindsets to change our everyday life and really

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live a life of our dreams more and more every day with each and every episode.

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So welcome.

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Today we are going to talk about imposter syndrome.

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Yep, imposter syndrome, the one where we feel like we are not enough.

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So, I might feel like, hey, who am I to be airing a podcast?

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Or somebody else could feel, why are they...

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a publisher.

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Why are they wanting to have any dream that they have?

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How can they be successful at that?

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It could pop up anytime you have desire for a new dream.

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So let's say you want to learn to sketch, to pole dance.

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Maybe you could feel like Who the bleep am I?

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Or maybe even if it is something that you do well, so let's say you know

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how to bake really well, it could pop in even then, like who am I to

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think of baking this wedding cake?

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Who am I to open the shop?

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Who am I to write a book?

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Who am I to be able to sell so many books, so many products and so on?

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So as I was looking at this, I started looking at celebrities

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who've had imposter syndrome as well.

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Now You there were many I came across and it seems that it doesn't even

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matter how successful someone is.

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You've probably heard of Maya Angel.

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So Maya Angel is a really famous writer around the civil movements

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in America, and she is done probably seven autobiographies,

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at least when I looked at this.

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She's got a series of.

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TV shows, movies, all credited to her.

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She's written so many book essays and in her own biography, she talks

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about how she feels like an imposter.

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Like they're going to find out I'm not a writer.

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And that's after she's written so many poems and so many books.

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Okay, another example, Meryl Streep.

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She's the queen of Hollywood as we all know, like I love her movies and

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there's so many movies I'll just watch because it's Meryl Streep in there.

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So she says as well, well, one day they're going to find out

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that I'm not good at acting.

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Sounds crazy, right?

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But yet she has that.

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And to speak about scientists, there's Albert Einstein.

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So he's discovered relativity, he even discovered atoms, like

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he fundamentally changed science.

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And yet there are times when he's felt as well that maybe it's all just

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a gimmick, and people will find out.

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Maybe it's comforting in a sense that imposter syndrome, no matter

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who we are, how successful we are, we all tend to feel that.

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It's probably not the first time you want to run.

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It's probably not even the hundredth time you want to climb a mountain.

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It's probably still going to pop up.

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There's so many stage speakers.

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So many celebrities who say, Oh, just before we go on stage, we

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feel like we will totally tank it.

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So it's that ugly, nasty voice that comes in and that says, You can't do it.

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or you're faking it.

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This is not true.

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Your dream is going to come crashing right away.

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Now, that can be a very, very deep inner voice.

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Our own inner voice telling us, How good am I?

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How capable, how powerful am I?

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Sometimes, of course, it's taken from people around us, and we tend

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to look at it from their labels.

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So maybe a teacher, maybe a parent, maybe some well meaning person, or

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sometimes some ill meaning person as well, throws a thought in there,

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like, you are not capable enough.

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But the voice wouldn't be as strong if we didn't let it in.

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And it seems all of us struggle in some sense from imposter syndrome.

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Am I a good employee?

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Oh, they're going to find out.

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Maybe I'm not worth this pay rise.

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A lot of times with this, we will even talk ourselves out of opportunities

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that are just going to present themselves just because of the self

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belief, just because of this fear.

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Now, talking about fear, some wise person wrote that fear is just

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false evidence appearing real.

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I'll repeat.

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Fear is just false evidence appearing real.

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So when I have this inner critic in me, which says, I can't do this, or Who

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am I to think about anything, right?

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It's just a false evidence.

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Let's look at what you can do.

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to tackle the imposter syndrome.

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So first of all, that inner voice, to some extent, is always

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going to be there and it's okay.

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The more we don't feed it, the better it is.

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Like, just let it be there.

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Just listen to it and let it be.

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It's like dealing with toddlers, sometimes they are having a tantrum

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and the more you feed into it, the more you argue, the more you give logic to

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them, the higher that voice becomes.

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And you sort of tune them out and you just go, okay, this is what we're doing anyway.

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Or you just ignore them.

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A lot of times toddlers seem to then understand that this is the new rule.

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This is what's happening anyway, and then they settle down.

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Your inner voice or your imposter syndrome sometimes is absolutely the same way.

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When it comes in and says, Hey, you can't do this.

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Of course, listen to it, but just do it anyway and take

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small bite sizes if you will.

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So let's say if you wanted to start a baking business, you could first

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start with the smallest of steps, just trying your recipe, just sharing

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with some friends, just doing a small order, but just starting

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to build your success like that.

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So doing the small little bits.

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And with that, giving yourself the little success bites.

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So where imposter syndrome becomes strong is that self doubt, that nagging

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feeling that I am not good enough.

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So why not try the antidote?

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Why not go with the success bits and go, okay, well, I wanted

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to open a baking business.

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I tested my idea and my friends really like it.

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And write the small bits in there.

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Write the small bits around your friends, maybe other people who've

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had a look, but just create that success journal for yourself.

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Whatever it is that you're trying to tackle, just doing it anyway.

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Small bits, small bits, small bits.

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Whatever little bits that still make you feel comfortable.

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But taking that little small step.

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Let's say you wanted to learn to sing.

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Let's say your dream is to sing on the stage and maybe that's not what you do

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the first day but what you do is you start practicing a song and you learn

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that you notice your voice with that.

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The second one could be sharing with your friends or sending it

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out and just getting some feedback.

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And another one could be around approaching other teachers and getting

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some coaching there, but just seeing how that cycle happens and how your

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own self esteem improves with that.

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The more and more you step into you, the more and more you step into your

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idea, it's like the whole universe will just come together to make

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your idea a really grand reality.

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You know, when I was just talking about fear and I said, fear is

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just false evidence appearing real.

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It's literally that you wouldn't have any idea.

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In your head, there's nothing you would want to do if the whole

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universe did not want you to do it.

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There's a much bigger purpose to why you were born, a much bigger purpose

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than just living your life every day, having the days go by, whatever

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music you've got in you, as Dr.

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Wayne Dyer said, don't die with that music in you.

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So whatever that passion is, whatever that little thing is,

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whatever that big thing is, do that.

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And that wouldn't happen, that voice wouldn't be there, that desire

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wouldn't be there if the whole passage for you did not exist.

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It's just that you will walk a little bit, you'll see the next step in the staircase,

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then you'll do a little bit more, you'll see the next step in the staircase.

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It's your dream.

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Your staircase is there just by virtue of you thinking about it.

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Your staircase is there.

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You just have to take a little step one by one by one.

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The other thing you could start doing when the imposter syndrome creeps up.

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is you could start telling yourself yet.

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So let's say you go like well I'm not successful enough

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or who am I to write a book?

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Who am I to publish a book?

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So you could just go well I don't know this yet.

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That simply means that today you don't know it but you are on the path.

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You will figure it out because again you wouldn't have had the idea, if the

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other possibility wouldn't be there.

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The next steps will show up.

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You just need to walk that first step.

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The thought I'd want to leave you with is that when imposter syndrome

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kicks up, you could probably let it be, but just do it anyway.

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You know, the whole Nike slogan, like, just do it, just that.

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Maybe don't take the whole big steps.

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Take the smaller steps.

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Take the little baby steps that make you feel comfortable.

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If you want to leave your job, there's something else that's really pursuing

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your calling, just take the little steps.

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You don't have to leave your job right away.

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Just start doing whatever really inspires you.

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and do that little step anyway.

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Your nagging voice, your imposter syndrome, is always going to be there.

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As a soul, you are really powerful.

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You are capable.

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Whatever you dream of, you're able to do.

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And your job on earth, in this body, is to be able to surpass all your fears and to

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be able to get everything that you want.

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So the nagging voice when it comes up and it says, hey, you can't do this, or who

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are you to think about this great idea?, you just have to tell yourself it's false.

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The more and more you do it, and the more and more you even test it,

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you'll realize that it is just false.

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You know, the day you write your book, that day, that critical voice

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which said, Hey, you can't write a book, that day, that voice gets silenced and

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it was nothing but just a facade, but it was just like that gloomy, dark,

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ghostly voice that was trying to keep you away from your own potential.

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If you started looking at your life in terms of an adventure, and you started

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thinking of the imposter syndrome as just these creepy, scary voices trying

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to keep you away from the castle, from the life of your dreams, then it just

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becomes a little different perspective.

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Do it anyway.

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Listen to the voices, listen to what it's saying, but just follow your dream anyway.

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Because...

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That's exactly where you need to go.

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You have everything that you need to be powerful, to be able to step

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into your own light and shine and spread it everywhere in the world.

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Your inner critical voice, the fearful voice, it's all really false.

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It's just a facade.

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It's just trying to keep you from your true light.

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Don't let that happen.

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Okay.

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