Experiencing Imposter Syndrome for the first time - DeWanda Wise weighs in on my feelings

[00:00:00]Imposter syndrome vanished once I recognized its name and felt less isolated.

[00:00:04]>> They bought bought my travel, they everything. And I'm sitting there like, "Why am I feeling like this?" It just felt like my stomach kept going deeper and deeper in my feet. And I'm like, "I'm 5 days away. I'm not even nowhere near the event." And I'm feeling like this. And I remember my wife was just like, "You don't think that could be imposter syndrome?" I said, "What is that?"

[00:00:26]I said, "What is imposter syndrome?" And I looked it up and I'm like, "Oh, snap." I was like, "That's what that is."

[00:00:33]It went away 30 minutes before I pulled up at the event.

[00:00:38]It was like I was like Say it again?

[00:00:41]>> What what changed? Was it just the knowledge? Was it just the awareness?

[00:00:44]>> that's what it was. Yeah, I was like, "All right, I I know what it is now.

[00:00:48]Then let me go ahead and rock it out."

[00:00:50]>> Isn't that powerful, like how sometimes when you have language for something?

[00:00:55]Like when you actually have a language for something, it changes because then you're also I You know what I think part of it is? This is me As obviously everyone knows I'm a want-to-be therapist. I think part of it is >> [laughter] >> when when you when you're given an awareness of something, when there's language for it, it automatically makes you know that it is not um it is not like isolated. It's not just about you.

[00:01:19]That this is something that many other people experience.

[00:01:23]>> Yep.

[00:01:23]>> Yeah.

[00:01:24]>> That's exactly what it was, yo.