Mira overcoming impostor syndrome
Myroslav "Mira" Kolpakov has been playing support for Team Spirit since 2021. He and the team won the International that year. Even though Mira won the largest Dota 2 championship of the year, he dealt with impostor syndrome afterward, sometimes thinking he wasn't as good as he was.
This doubt resulted from other public gamers who wouldn't listen to Mira's advice, with others saying the win was in a pandemic year and the win was due to the other team messing up. When Mira and his team didn't see the same success in the next International, the impostor syndrome didn't improve. In 2023, he mentioned he still had some impostor symptoms, but he stopped caring and thinking about it.
At TI 12, Mira and Team Spirit had one of the most dominant TI performances ever, going 15-2 overall to win the tournament. This win made Mira a two-time TI champion and hopefully got rid of his impostor syndrome for good.
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I guess not, but I don't care anymore. It doesn't matter me anymore, I'll just try my best and I don't think about it anymore.
Myroslav "Mira" Kolpakov
I know this term pretty well. I went through that syndrome on my own: it's when you believe your achievements don't belong to you, that it wasn't your efforts to get you somewhere.
Myroslav "Mira" Kolpakov
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