The practice rooms sit in a row in the basement, with thin walls and no windows. We can hear everyone. We tell ourselves the sound only travels one direction. We do real work in that room — verifiable, specific progress we can hear for ourselves. And still, underneath it, a question keeps circling. Will it be enough.

We have spent decades treating Impostor Syndrome as a thought that needs correcting. It is not a distorted thought. It is a physiological strategy that is working exactly as it was designed to work. This piece names what that means, and why it changes everything about how we work with it.