Here’s how Impostor Syndrome is defined:
noun Psychology.
anxiety or self-doubt that results from persistently undervaluing one’s competence and active role in achieving success, while falsely attributing one’s accomplishments to luck or other external forces.
I’m sure many of us have those feeling but we don’t really talk about them. In a recent interview, Declan McKenna went down that rabbit hole though, saying: “I’ve just been sitting on an album for a year, and I have had too much time to ask myself questions about the musical direction I have gone in. When you get to that point, you begin to wonder if you are an absolute fraud” when referring to his latest album, ‘Zeros’ that just dropped.
Read more about it here.
