Tonight a bunch of @SpaceX folks were geeking out on our internal company chat platform about #Inspiration4 and specifically how it demonstrates the upcoming accessibility of space, and surprisingly it turned into a long company-wide chat about imposter syndrome.
The entire world has imposter syndrome. But especially about space. Practically no one on Earth believes they will ever go into space. But also about literally everything.
#Inspiration4 is actually an amazing demonstration of the current and future state of the accessibility of space to the average person. The first part of the conversation was about addressing some takes by folks in the media, who said it's no different than Bezos & Branson.
Billionaires in space. But #Inspiration4 is about proving exactly the opposite, and they're actually doing a great job.
Of course, the first civilian mission has to be paid for, and some folks and some media outlets are dismissing this entire mission just because it has financial support from somewhere.
Back on topic, we started talking about this article which criticized the mission as just more "billionaires in space," and we moved on to the participants.
We started talking about how similar we are to the participants. Some of us don't have college degrees. Some of us have health issues that would keep us out of the astronaut program.
We've met people who thought there were already people on the Moon and Mars.
Most folks don't understand space.
but. We started talking about how amazing #Inspiration4 is and started questioning our own roles. The conversation evolved into an imposter syndrome support group. 😭
And the longer we talked, the more people chimed in, and the more people who chimed in, the more people came in validating the ones who where questioning.
It was a snowball of people telling each other how they appreciated each other and how they deserved to be there and confirming folks latent self-affirmations.
And this is exactly what #Inspiration4 is about. We're all worthy. We launch each other. To Mars.
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