Video: Do You Suffer From Imposter Syndrome?

Have you ever felt like an Imposter? Perhaps, you don’t always practice what you preach. Or maybe, because you are only a human being there is no way to completely avoid the traps in life?

This is something I have been aware of within myself over the years. But here is the thing, I have learned that our greatest areas of struggle in this life are our super powers. These are the areas that we can become super knowledgeable about and help others with (as well as ourselves).

In Tal Ben-Shahar’s book, The Pursuit of Perfect, he talks about how he was approached by a colleague who teased him that he better never see Tal sad as he is running a course and research on Happiness. Tal wrote that being happy all the time is not the goal. It is not even humanly possible. It is because of all of the other emotions and experiences we go through, that we can experience happiness more fully.

So don’t beat yourself up if your superpower keeps leading you down the very path of what you are hoping to avoid because you have learned so much about that area. No one is perfect. And when we believe in absolutes, it sets us up for failure. The human experience lives in the grey zone. Live here!