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What is Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome is a snowball effect from breaking one’s virtues. If one has worked hard to conquer a negative trait, is known to be such way, and breaks the normal habit of such, one can mentally nosedive down a mountain. There is not much worse than being outspoken of such changes to one’s internal being and then breaking it.
This is where we can refer to a Greene-Machiavellian approach of, “Do we even speak about the personal to others?” Breaking a virtue isn’t even the falling action, it is the aftermath of feeling like a fraud. Your brain tells you that your genuineness is actually the mask, and failing is the real you. Or, when the negative trait that was conquered the most is the one revealed into the light of counterparts.
Philosophical imposter Syndrome
How can one claim to be Stoic if they get angry over an unreasonable act?
How can one claim to be a nihilist if they care in the slightest?
How can one claim to be a hedonic if they want to settle down?
The identity crisis in today’s society is a real thing, and one may think they are secured in themselves. Until the rain comes, or the “mask” cracks, or the heart is broken.
“Who am I to act like I am better than such, and can teach such?”
Over time, one may think that the path of philosophy is to grasp and identity and secure it from the world. However, philosophy is how to overcome when you break a virtue. If the simplicity of philosophy was to read a couple books and be good forever, then one would have to play the role of God. No one knows what the future holds, when the rain will come, when the surprise will knock on your door.
One is philosophically sound when they can overcome the unknown.
It is not the crack of the virtue that eliminates one’s hard work, it is the ability to overcome the crack. Philosophy plays the role of a band-aid, as it is not meant to stop the original cut, but to protect from infection and more dangerous viruses in the future.
Christian Imposter Syndrome
How can an imperfect teach about the works of the perfect?
How can the imperfect teach the imperfect?
The fire and passion that comes with Christianity when grasped, will never fly away. As Christians’, we must spread the good news and live our life up to par. We all know we are sinners, and that must be acknowledged and understood; but when the simplest of the Christian virtues is broken in one’s internal, another snowball will create.
Only God can stop this snowball from compounding.
A stranger once asked me, “How do I not dwell about my sin, feeling as if I let God down?” I responded with my thoughts than can be found in “Power of Energy,” and shook his hand.
That interaction had set me up with joy for awhile.
I was unfazed, confident in my ideologies, feeling as if I could never do wrong; and then I later went on to fail.
How can I teach or write about such ideologies as a failure myself?
Takeaways
All of us are going to fail and feel like frauds; we are all sinners and are going to face philosophical adversity.
The beauty of the imperfect is that conversation can heal both weak points. I will be better in some areas than you, and you will be better in some areas than me. This is why the imperfectness of human connection is beautiful; we can indirectly help each other although none of us have it all figured out.
A person can resonate a point to another, which helps the listener. The “teacher” themselves isn’t perfect in that retrospect, but can still help the listener.
Religion and philosophy, Christianity and Stoicism, both simultaneously allow the person a fallback plan. It is not to stop the wound, but to recover from such wound.
Jesus forgives, philosophy allows yourself to forgive, and they both have your back when needed most.
When your spirit goes up, your fleshly desire goes down. Although they will never be equal, it allows for one’s “toolbox” to include more tools in one’s life.
