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My blog hit 100,000 page views last month and I feel like a fraud
I've been writing about classic car restoration for five years, mostly just sharing my own mistakes and fixes on my 1967 Mustang. The traffic spike came from one post about fixing a specific carburetor vacuum leak that got linked on a big forum. It's weird because I still feel like I'm just a guy in a garage, not an expert. Has anyone else had a success that made them feel more insecure than proud?
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hart.mark22d ago
You're probably the least fake person in the room because you actually showed people the fix instead of just acting like you know everything. @xena_brown50 nailed it - one solid solution is worth more than a hundred perfect guides. Fake experts don't worry about being frauds, that's the real tell.
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xena_brown501mo ago
Oh man, I totally get this. My sourdough starter guide blew up once and I felt like a total fake. People were asking me for advice and I was like, I still burn my loaves half the time! What helped me was remembering that my post worked because it solved one real problem for people. You didn't write a whole book on carburetors, you just fixed one leak. That's the good stuff.
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