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How to Destroy Your Self-Doubt

Nour Boustani
6 min readJul 16, 2022

Today I’m going to shoot your imposter syndrome in the head and send it straight to hell. It’s time to give your fears a final hug and a kiss goodbye.

I think the writers who keep writing about escaping from inner fears, self-doubt, and the imposter syndrome should become drama tv writers.

It’s a profitable genre when you make up fears, scale them, repeat them, then make people lie to themselves about believing them. You can make tons of money talking about delusional crap but never offering a practical solution. And in the end, no one gets to blame you; they are the weak ones while you are the god-sent savior.

Lack of courage has become a global problem, I see it everywhere, and the reason for that is people have become a bunch of pussified wimps.

They lost their instinct of being predators animals and became more of a weak rabbit prey; that’s not how humans were supposed to be; humans are creative creatures with a significant need for self-expression and freedom.

A lion that doubts its hunting skill will die starving; humans are no different.

In today’s social and financial complexity, you can’t afford to doubt yourself for a second; millions of people will step on your head and squash it to take over your place and enjoy a better life that was supposed to be…

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Nour Boustani
Nour Boustani

Written by Nour Boustani

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