<b>Who am I to give advice?</b>

<b>Who am I to give advice?</b>

Q: "I feel like a fraud teaching things I only learned last year. Doesn't that make me a fake?"

Short answer: No. The person one step ahead of someone is often the best teacher, because they still remember the confusion the expert forgot.

Impostor syndrome assumes you must be the world's authority to speak. You don't. You need to be a useful guide for the people standing where you stood a year ago. Your fresh memory of being stuck is an advantage, not a disqualifier.

Share what you wish someone had told you 12 months back. That's not faking. That's generosity.

Try this today: Write one post that begins "A year ago I didn't know this, and it would have saved me weeks." Then teach it.