Imposter syndrome is a good thing

They say, parenting is hard only for good parents.

Likewise, imposter syndrome is hard only for good indie hackers. Because real imposters don’t have any syndrome.

And in an era where people fake revenue screenshots, pose with rented Ferraris to show off how they became a millionaire at 15, make unsubstantiated claims about their success to sell courses, outright copy successful apps, steal content without attribution, or even outright defraud investors, imposter syndrome is actually a good thing.

Because if you’re worried about not being good enough, ethical enough, successful enough, at least it shows you got a working moral compass. You’ve got integrity! Congrats!

The downside of imposter syndrome—making yourself smaller than you really are, not taking chances, being risk aversive, etc—can be circumvented. We can learn to better manage imposter syndrome. But lack of ethics and integrity is hard to learn. It goes deep. Probably started early. And once your credibility is gone, it’s gone. Nobody will do business with you, buy from you, engage with you.

So tl;dr – Imposter syndrome is a good thing.

You don’t have to try to eliminate it. But rather, just learn to better manage the downsides whilst living alongside it. It’s beneficial to experience it from time to time.

Means ya good.