Fyodor Dostoevsky’s lessons for entrepreneurs who feel like imposters.

Larry Kaul
3 min readJun 25, 2024

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“I am a sick man, I am a spiteful man, I am an unattractive man.” The joy he felt can’t be easily explained. This article may help when you feel confused.

The man from underground goes on to explain why his liver hurting isn’t a bad thing, but rather a required experience for positive people of the day.

For those of us who dig deep the book reads as a manual to overcome imposter syndrome for entrepreneurs working outside the belief matrix.

Portrait of Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov, 1872

We would have had a laugh. I’ve been underneath the floorboards of society. It’s not easy. That’s why the book strikes me with such power.

It matters for today’s entrepreneurs. Feeling like an imposter means one thinks, acts, and impacts society as an imposter. My liver hurts is honest.

What Dostoevsky knew was how to see through the veil that draped over the intellectual class of that day. Much has changed, but not everything.

Like in Russia what he describes as The Wall still binds our technology, scientific, and cultural leaders into a box. They are trapped in thinking.

What comes from people stuck in the mind is projection from the partition contained within. The judgement from opinion show projects complexity.

Dostoevsky knew it was impossible to reason with people like this. Instead, he argued with himself about how he would talk to them. It’s different now.

Most of the world comes together in a global forum of ideas, information, and community. It’s not hard to find the right groups. I don’t feel alone.

Many entrepreneurs exist outside the matrix. Your inner experience is true. What you hear is a projection of others. Careful not to doubt your true gifts.

Imposter syndrome opens gifts. Owning projections kills the imposter before it projects. When my liver hurts I’ll know as I can’t hide from myself.

When I feel that imposter feeling rise it’s easy enough to explore why. When I find the source then I get deeper into the emotion and release it.

Society does not reward those with challenging new ideas. Become like steel inside. Entrepreneurs who hide from their pain get lost in the matrix.

Freedom came from not caring. Not feeling fear comes after feeling all fear. The deeper you go the bigger the freedom. You can’t buy full clarity.

This approach when adopted as a regular practice freed me from imposter syndrome. It’s not my practice. All originals in the world get deep this way.

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Larry Kaul

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