Eric Bischoff opened up about dealing with imposter syndrome while running WCW during his appearance on the No Contest Wrestling Podcast. He shared that he often felt undeserving of his position at the top of the company and discussed how he coped with those feelings. Bischoff first took an executive role in WCW in 1993 and ran the company from 1994 to 1999, before being let go as the company began to decline. He was brought back in 2000 and remained until WCW was sold to WWE in early 2001.
Eric Bischoff said (per Wrestling Inc).:
“I had never heard of imposter syndrome at that point, but I could have written the book, I’d go to work every day going ‘why am I in this position? What do I do? How do I do this job?’ But again, I surrounded myself with really good people that I could lean on that had more experience than I did in certain areas, and was able to learn from them, and just like I said, learn on the job.”
“You know I had some great success, had a couple of miserable failures, but as long as you learn from your mistakes, it’s just part of the process.”
