Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

If you are suffering from Imposter syndrome at the moment and I think that truly if we're not on

coast mode and we're really going for it in our lives, imposter syndrome is a constant, right?

It's something that we can befriend and learn to understand and expect.

And I always think to myself, if I'm not feeling a bit out of my depth or nervous or maybe, oh gosh, am I really ready for this?

I'm not sure I'm really pushing myself.

I'm really getting out of the comfort zone

that limits us, right, that allows us to stagnateate and I came across this story recently by

someone called Neil Gaiman and I want to read it to you. Okay because when I read it

I was like yes I've got to do a pot about this because I think that this is something that we can all relate to and if this person feels imposter syndrome then there's a lot of hope for the rest of us.

So this is what Neil Gaiman says.

Some years ago, I was lucky enough to be invited to a gathering of great and good people.

Artists and scientists, writers and describes. be invited to a gathering of great and good people.

Artists and scientists, writers and discoveries of things.

And I felt that at any moment they would realize that I didn't qualify to be there

among these people who had really done things.

On my second or third night there, I was standing at the back of the hall

while a musical entertainment happened,

and I started talking to a very nice, polite, elderly gentleman about several things, including our shared first name.

And then he pointed to the Hall of People and said words of the effect of,

I just look at all of these people and I think,

what the heck am I doing here?

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