I am now free to fully lean into my incompetence – a pleasure denied to me when working and suffering from Impostor Syndrome
The human being is a complicated beast, and many of us suffer from all kinds of syndromes and complexes. In this era of measuring, naming and documenting everything, the experts keep coming up with ever more conditions for us to worry about.
Take Stendhal Syndrome, AKA Florence Syndrome. It has you fainting and possibly hallucinating when exposed to great beauty. And we’ve all heard of Fomo – the ever-present fear of missing out. The latter condition is fuelled by social media, and Facebook in particular. I can’t stand seeing friends posting about their fabulous trek through the foothills of Nepal, their Greek Islands pleasure cruise, or even their hip replacement. I want what they’re having.
