You Can’t Defeat Impostor Syndrome, but You Will Still Succeed

How I learned to coexist with it and kept publishing for 13 years.

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As I write this, I’m constantly fighting my nagging impostor syndrome:

• “Who are you to teach this?”
• “Someone already wrote about this. Probably better than you.”
• “By the way, English isn’t even your first language. You can’t avoid embarrassing mistakes.”

I’ve been publishing for 13+ years: thousands of articles, podcasts, social media posts, videos, newsletters. They racked up millions of views, collected tens of thousands of subscribers, and sold courses, guides, and services.

Never enough to banish impostor syndrome.

It’s exhausting, it’s ugly. But, switching perspective, I feel grateful. I never stopped shipping, even in the face of this constant struggle.

After all these years, I realize writers can stop wasting time trying to get rid of impostor syndrome. We must learn to live with it and still thrive.

Here’s how I did it.

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