How can you overcome imposter syndrome and live to your best potential, despite setbacks in life?

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Stacy Pearsall · Answer

Hi Kate. I wanted to let you know that even somebody like myself, who's a professional and has been for a number of years, I still get impostor syndrome. I still walk into a room of other professionals and think how is it that I'm here? How is it that my work is published. Somebody is going to find out that I'm a fraud at some point. But you know what, that's a very human response and having those feelings of insecurity is a very human human nature. And I feel like what you need to remember, is the work that you're creating is your art and just remember to artist objective. Will there be good and bad? Yes, good and bad feedback. Sure, will there be setbacks along the way? Yeah, some people are going to tell, you know, I've been told no many times in my life but at again at the end of the day, it's all about the art your that you create create work that makes you happy, create photographs that resonate with you. And as long as You're doing that. You're not an imposter, you're an artist.

Deborah Sandidge · Answer

The question is, how can you overcome impostor syndrome and live your best potential despite setbacks in life? This is a really good question. It's a deep question. That is really kind of a buzzword right now. You hear a lot of people talk about imposter syndrome and you know, it's a true thing. I really think about it. I don't think that any of us Don't compare ourselves to other people and that isn't always a healthy thing to do. I think it's good to look at other people and what they do and be inspired by them by their creativity. But not necessarily why what they've achieved and compared to what you're achieving at any given time. So, I had look at some of my peers and I think it's really amazing what they're doing. I'm but that's what they're doing. I think that's great. I'm doing what I'm doing. And I just have to keep going. So I hear that a lot. I try to just let that bounce off me. I don't even like the word imposter syndrome. So I try not to even address things that I see, I think each of us are individuals and despite setbacks and despite progress that we've made you know there's there's a lot of things that happen. So the best thing is to just to look at what you're doing. Don't compare yourself to other people. Just keep shooting. Just keep moving forward and enjoy. Yourself and photography along the way.

Mike James · Answer

How can you overcome imposter syndrome and live to your best potential despite setbacks in life? I've experienced imposter syndrome, I still do. It's something that never goes away. We just learn how to how to manage it, how to cope with it. Syndrome, it sounds really negative and really bad but there's a lot worse things out there. For me, it's a mindset thing that I've tried to work on and Dr. Valerie Yound at the Imposter Syndrome Institute has some fantastic articles and resources, link is below. For me, a classic example is that I'm really fortunate to be friends with a few YouTube, mobile photography YouTubers now. We've got a great little group, we all support each other. Initially when I joined up with these guys, it's like wow, these guys are so much better than me. Who am I? They produce very professional videos and for me, I don't have the time or the resources to do that and it's like oh my gosh, what am I doing here? But now after jumping on that website, I've now kind of reframed that narrative in my mind and now it's like wow, how amazing is this opportunity. Yes, they're all better than me but I'm going to learn so much from it. So that I think helps if you change their mindsets like a lot of things, change your mindset, change the negative into a positive, then that can help you and I think we can apply that to a lot of different parts of our life and our relationships, can't we? Anyway, that's just my two cents worth.

Moose Peterson · Answer

Kate be honest with you, this is my second attempt to answer this question. The first one deleted because, well, I had to go do some homework, your question. How can you overcome imposter syndrome and live to your best potential? I actually had to go to the web to figure out what imposter syndrome is. I had never heard of it. According the web photographers, all the top or seem to suffer from it. I guess it's another way of saying insecurities With that said, how do you live your to your best potential to me whether you have imposter syndrome or not? You know confidence is a big part of everything you do especially in photography. I don't have the answer for you and as far as I am concerned, I go with what Clint Eastwood said, you know, a man's got to know his limitations. It's so my limitations as soon as I leave the camera, there are a whole lot and just got a gnome.

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