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THE PRINCIPLE
Overcoming the ‘impostor syndrome’ unleashes your creativity
Many people suffer from the ‘impostor syndrome’, the fear that they are incompetent or unworthy and will be found out any day and stripped of their jobs and reputation, if not actually arrested.
For example, successful musician Moby told The Times magazine, ‘I’ve never really trusted what success I’ve had. I feel it to be fraudulent, chimerical and liable to be taken away from me in an instant.’
Talking about her Oscar, actress Jodie Foster told 60 Minutes: ‘I thought everybody would find out, and they’d take the Oscar back. They’d come to my house, knocking on the door, “Excuse me, we meant to give that to someone else. That was going to ...
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