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Yes! Every. Single. Day. No answers except to go easy on yourself, which I am trying to do. Also, someone in the forum recommended the book Quiet. I'm discovering more and more that I am an introvert. So while I'm confident in front of friends, put me in a new team environment where I don't know anyone and ask me to concept-and I choke.
Yes Quiet! I watched a TED talk by the author--super interesting and would highly recommend. Read some of her book a while back as well
Embrace it and use as fuel to drive you to better and better work.
Fake it til you make it is so cliche but it applies to a lot of people I've seen grow and climb in adland. And not in a bad or deceitful way. There's been countless times someone (way) senior to me reveals how little they know about something I assumed they should be well experienced in... something I may in fact be more versed in than them. The sooner you see people don't know it all and struggle with the same insecurities, the sooner you can be comfortable in a constant state of learning. That's what a good career is IMO, always growing and being challenged - aka, never the smartest in the room.
So you can get to the mid level fairly quickly or id the stars align even higher, but then your consciousness sometimes has to reconcile your title with whether you actually deserved it or not based on your capabilities and skills.
yes. all the time. and it gets scarier when you're paid a lot. deep down I think I just have a really good EQ which helps me do my job well but I don't particularly think I'm good at presenting.
I'm just glad to know I'm not crazy, and not alone. And instead of worrying about all of the above to point of anxiety and sometimes depression, I should just continue to learn, grow and do the best I can. I honestly am my own worst critic and I've worried myself sick about having imposter syndrome, not being good enough and being found out like I'm using stolen identity or something smh lol
We all do. Embrace. Own. Learn.
Everyone has an imposter syndrome at some point and it's okay, some industries like advertising cause more acute incidents because or low barrier of entry in terms of skills (sorry but it's true) paired with inflated egos, awards, expectations to do great life-changing work, etc. Pharmacists for example experience it on a way smaller scale.
Almost every smart creative person I know feels this way sometimes.... Imposter syndrome.
Yea - but I'm not a creative, an account. Which I think makes it even worse because I'm not the one creating the work