Do you also suffer from Imposter Syndrome like I do?

@PhoenixPhail What's the difference between inability and not having ability?

@SW-User None that I know of. But I didn't seen anything in your question which referred to not having ability, just inability.

@PhoenixPhail But there's no difference between inability and not having ability lol

@SW-User You were asking if I had the persistent [b][i]in[/i][/b]ability to believe. No, I have the [b]ability[/b] to believe, not the [b]inability.[/b]

@SW-User It would seem, Imposter Syndrome would be the persistent [b]ability[/b] to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one's efforts or skills. Not the inability.

@PhoenixPhail So you have the ability to believe that your success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of your efforts or skills?

@SW-User Yes.

@SW-User I think I might see the problem here; I don't think my success has anything to do with my efforts or skills, to begin with.

@PhoenixPhail But you said in your comment "I have not only the ability to believe my success is deserved or has been achieved as a result of my efforts or skills, but my value, as well."

@SW-User Yes, that's correct. And therefore, would have imposter syndrome, since my success and value DON'T come from my efforts or skills.

@PhoenixPhail But when I asked you this

[quote]So you have the ability to believe that your success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of your efforts or skills?[/quote]

You said [quote]Yes[/quote]?

@SW-User That's right. That would be what the impostering is about.

@PhoenixPhail Let me get this straight, you said you have the ability to believe that your success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of your efforts or skills but then you also said this?

[quote]I have not only the ability to believe my success is deserved or has been achieved as a result of my efforts or skills, but my value, as well,[/quote]

I think you're lost :P

@SW-User LOL 🤪😂 (This is so hysterical.) No! Not at all. I'm FOUND! (I'm still blind as a bat, though.)
Yes! I have the ability, and have interpreted my success and value as coming from the results of my efforts and skills. That's how the imposter syndrome would be expressed with me because my effort and skills have nothing to do with my success. Does that help? 🤔

@PhoenixPhail You have to understand imposter syndrome for the way it is. You can't see it however you want :P otherwise what good does its definition do?

@SW-User I DO understand imposter syndrome as it is. According to Wikipedia, "Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon, impostorism, fraud syndrome or the impostor experience) is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud." I'm in complete agreement with this definition, which differs from YOUR definition. The definition you've presented is based on the premise; "that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one's efforts or skills."

I don't define my success by any degree of quality or quantity of anything I've done, but by my alignment with my True Being. Defining my success by the results of my efforts and skills, would be being OF this world, not IN it. I do not doubt my accomplishments resulting from my efforts or skills in this physical, time/space reality. However, those accomplishments are by no means a measure of my success - my alignment with my True Being, and in fact, have proven to be impediments and road blocks to my [b]attaining[/b] true alignment. Furthermore, IF you are basing ones success on the products of one's accomplishments resulting from efforts and skills, your definition clearly states imposter syndrome as the [b]IN[/b]ability to recognize that success. The only way [b]that[/b] success can be achieved, is through the [b]ability[/b] to perceive their success is deserved or legitimately achieved as a result of one's efforts or skills. Not the [b]IN[/b]ability.