Even Girl Bosses Get Insecure

What do you do when you feel like a fraud, or just can’t even at another networking event? Businesswoman, fashion designer, and author Sophia Amoruso gives you the tools to deal.

- Sophia Amoruso

You know what makes everyone confident? Cocaine. Kidding! Don’t do that. I haven’t always been confident. There was a time in my life when I couldn’t focus beyond the thoughts ricocheting around in my head. Are my hands in the right place? Are they onto me? In the world I travel these days, I will never quite feel like belong—like I’m as smart as the company I keep.

I feel like a loser a lot of the time. Like I’m doing what I can until someone figures out that I shouldn’t be doing anything at all. I think it’s what those in the entrepreneurial world call ‘imposter syndrome’. If you’re a true specimen of a narcissist, you’ll never experience this—and if you set the bar super-low for yourself, you’re also in luck. For the rest of us with hopes, dreams, and aspirations, it’s normal.