An unanswerable hypothetical: which art is better? An art print by an unnamed that hangs in your dining room that you view at every meal or the George Seurat original hanging in the nationally-acclaimed museum gallery?

Some of the most meaningful visual art I've experienced in my life is the entrance to the Porto Train Station.

If exterior affirmation is the only form of medicine that can treat your Imposter Phenomenon, you will end up addicted to increasing dosages, not unlike a drug addict.

It's why, in my profession, there are so many conductors who just can't stop submitting their choirs for conference performances.

For every one time I've had an interest session or paper accepted for a conference I've been rejected two times.

My last year of doctoral school I applied to 46 positions, both choral conducting and choral music education positions. I got three on-campus interviews. That's a 6.5% success rate. I found my way to where I was supposed to be, but boy did it feel like failure as my friends landed jobs.

I just got done reading this study about Imposter Phenomenon in choral musicians, and it turns out that there is a high Prevelance of IP in the field that doesn't discriminate by age, experience level, grade level, or any other particular demographic.

The study did hint at some ways to beat it.

The times I am successful are far rarer than the times when I am unsuccessful. I am unsuccessful a lot, actually. I have to experience failure as something that passes through me and not into me.