Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "The Imposter Princess" video.

  1. I had a cousin like that. She was unbelievably charismatic, people always wanted to do things for her. Even as a little kid she was impossible to resist. Of course she started getting into trouble as a preteen, smoking, sleeping around, running away. She would show up at our house, and my mom, instead of turning her away as she insisted she would, would, in five minutes, be on her side, giving her money, etc. She was so magnetic, it was impossible to resist. She continued to raise hell wherever she was, including during her 8 marriages (I'm not kidding!). She had two kids, started and ended several businesses and somehow stayed friends with her busloads of ex husbands...I haven't seen her in 30 years, but she has been happily married for years now to a multimillionaire and doing well. I always felt that she was very like Elizabeth Taylor, just too much of everything in one person...
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  2. I think they call it, "imposter syndrome". People who feel, in spite of proof and encouragement, that they are somehow fooling people and feel unworthy to the point of occasionally insisting that they are no good at whatever it is that they do. I always think success needs a lot of confidence, since you really need to forge your own path and believe in yourself when no one else does. The most successful, like Picasso, Hemingway, etc., were determined in spite of years of poverty and criticism until suddenly, they were geniuses....
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