The Expert Myth: Navigating Self-Doubt on the Road to Mastery

There’s a part of me that I just broke away from.

That didn’t want me to write what I’m about to write.

Partly because I’m not sure what that is exactly. The funny thing is that without even knowing what that something is, that I’m getting ready to write about, I’m psyching myself out before I even begin.

You’re no expert.

You don’t know enough about this.

You’re a fraud.

Let me clarify something once and for all and simultaneously set the tone for anyone that finds themselves in a similar predicament that is perpetuating self-critical defeat: NOBODY in the history of everyone has ever been an expert from the outset.

What do those that we consider experts have to go through and where did they begin?

Do you think they feel like experts? Or is that an arbitrary ideal, that we’re all on some level striving for within our respective fields?

You’ll never know enough, which may make you feel like a fraud at times. Until you take a step back and notice the symbiotic relationship between the three [which way do you see it?]:

~ Sunday 01.04.2016 @ 12:26am