The Evening Muse │Self-Awareness is Self-Empowerment
Imposter Syndrome -A Question of Self-Worth
I am worthy, and so are you.
Lately, "Imposter Syndrome" has become a buzzphrase. It's incredible the number of people who suffer from it. Hide it. Laugh through it, and you would never know.
Pondering this phrase while the sounds of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue play softly but headily in my ears, I sip on my green tea with a slice of orange, and I let the catechins and notes guide my musing about worthiness.
Imposter syndrome can be defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident success. ‘Imposters’ suffer from chronic self-doubt and a sense of intellectual fraudulence that override any feelings of success or external proof of their competence.
When we suffer from imposter syndrome, doesn't it come down to a mess gumbo of diminished self-worth and neuroticism? At some point, we lost sight of our value — our self-worth — and neuroticism took its place.
Neuroticism is one of the five personality traits. Neuroticism is a tendency toward anxiety, depression, self-doubt, and other negative feelings. All personality traits, including neuroticism, exist on a spectrum.
