The Psychology of People Who Never Feel Good Enough

If I don't feel good enough I work harder to better myself. I may never be satisfied with myself but everyone around me stands flabbergasted. Do better. Energy and perseverance conquer all things.

Self compassion: Refusing to give a damn if you're good enough or not. Therefore you may as well decide that you are.🤎

Cant relate

Just wow. Thank you for this as it's put me on a journey to evaluating myself and what I've been chasing and why.

Why so many comments promoting Albert Page?

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I got nothing from my childhood. I was the stray dog no one wanted, but tethered. Bad grades meant trouble, good grades meant no trouble. Perhaps in the end this helped me because my view of myself and the world around me came from within, not from without.

Honestly the world would be better off if those with imposter syndrome were the only ones we trusted to lead companies and countries. Because those are the ones who are humble enough to know they don’t know everything. To know they need to rely on the expertise of trusted friends and colleagues. And never get caught up in the Dunning Kruger effect. Smart enough to know there is still a lot they don’t know versus overconfident in their subpar reasoning skills.

There’s nothing wrong with meritocracy.
You are the common denominator in your life.
A simplistic view says hard work and persistence equals high value. That’s reductive, life is full of nuance and randomness.
But you’re 100x more likely to end up somewhere you strive for if you work hard and are persistent than if you give up.

Meritocracy doesn’t say you deserve to be poor, your putting words in the ideas mouth. Meritocracy says “you were born poor in a shit position and have the ability to possibly get out of it”.

The only person who is responsible for feeling bad for not living up to extremely high standards is the person themseleves for not being ok with what is average and assuming they failed if they can’t surpass it.

Don’t try to justify an external locus of control. That’s for losers.

Life’s not fair, but to say “I have no control” is to say “woe is me pity me, nothing is ever my fault” and then wonder why your so depressed when you spend your life chasing hedonistic highs and never do anything of value or strive for purpose.

and for my family my every success has always been “a gift from the god” that i needed to be grateful for, no matter how hard i worked to make my dreams come true, it was always the god and never me.