The mindset that might help you conquer imposter syndrome – why you feel you really don’t belong to the kind of great people that you’re trying to fit yourself among them.

I make no claims that what I say works. Nor do I make the claim that if something works, it will do so universally. What I try to do is provide you with information or pieces of advice. You being exposed to such content does not necessarily mean your life will change in any positive way. I just generate opinions about stuff and deliver them to you. I do not claim any of what I say to be factual, even if 100% of it turned out to be so someday. You pick what you like, try it for yourself, and if it works for you, then by all means, what are you waiting for? Implement it in your life. But it will be your responsibility now. You did this to yourself. I am not responsible for the consequences. “I take no responsibility at all.” – Donald Trump
I am not trying to convince you that I’m right. I do not present evidence. I do not do scientific studies. I do not want hard evidence that what I say is right. I don’t want it to be right. I just want to expose you to such stuff. You decide on your own if that stuff you’ve been exposed to is terrific or pure useless garbage. I do not convince others that anything is right. I present stuff that either I discovered or others came up with to you because I believe it might provide you with a certain effect that I’m hoping you’re qualified to experience when exposed to such stuff. I’m not trying to manipulate you, suck money out of you, bullshit you, trick you, or spam you with pointless toxic positivity. I’m just trying to help you. Please be an adult and stop saying shit like this doesn’t work. I told you so and so will change your life but nothing happened. This is not my fault. I’m not promising you anything. Not even the chance to be entertained by going through my content. I could be boring as fuck. I’m not perfect. Not even remotely. I’m not typical. And I’m not going to give up just because I’m not the polished college professor you expect me to be. I just decided to help you instead of giving up on life. I’m not talking to you from an ivory tower. I’m stuck in the same sewage system that you are right now, only that I decided to do something about it. I’m not the guy who made it and is standing from a high ground telling you how to live your life, how I made it, or how to succeed in your life just as I did, because it isn’t that I made it and now I turned back and decided to help you by giving you the formula of success after I’ve learnt it through experience or practice. A ton of what I firmly believe to be true is theoretical and based on pure thought experiments. This is my own philosophy of success. Not the formula of how I succeeded. I may be struggling way more than you could ever struggle in your life. I may have failed more than you could possibly ever fail in your entire lifetime even if you were immortal. I am not better than you in any way. I am below average in everything. Success requires both IQ and hard work. I am trying to bypass the IQ part through hard ass work. I outwork everybody, not because I’m better than anybody, but because this is the only way I could avoid falling behind almost all average people in the developed world. I’m not smarter than you. I just decided to figure out stuff that could help some people overcome the obstacles holding them back from reaching their full potential. I may have mistaken in what I thought to be true, helpful, or beneficial, but this is my futile pathetic attempt to help other people in whatever I can help them with in their lives. The question is, why haven’t you tried to provide them with your own philosophy that’s presumably better than mine? Why haven’t you tried to enlighten us with your own version of self-help and personal development material? You just say I suck, without presenting me with something better I can learn from you and modify my work around it. That’s why I am not embarrassed, and I’m not ashamed of my mistakes. Because at least I’m trying. You just took the quick and easy path of being a consumer who just criticizes any attempt to help others without making anything better yourself. If you did however, then good for you. I’m not gonna stop just because you are better than me. I’m going to keep trying and failing, because I will not sit down and do nothing just because you’re better than me, or you think the overwhelming majority of humanity is better or smarter than me.

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